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register now The Labor Campaign for Single Payer and Healthcare Now will host a joint National Strategy Conference October 18-20 in Portland, Oregon. Registration is now open for this important event and all unions active in the fight to win Medicare for All are invited to send a delegation. Register Here for the National Single-Payer Strategy Conference October 18-20. This conference […]

Two weeks out from the midterm elections it is important to remember that politicians often say one thing and do another. Nowhere is this hypocrisy more apparent than in the current flock of Republican candidates who swear that they will protect Americans against insurance company discrimination based on pre-existing conditions while spending much of the last […]

In June 2018, nearly 400 labor and social movement activists came together in Minneapolis for the National Single Payer Strategy Conference. The meeting was jointly sponsored by the Labor Campaign for Single Payer and Healthcare Now. Over 3 days, attendees marched through the streets of Minneapolis for guaranteed healthcare, listened to important plenary presentations, participated in […]

On April 18, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) introduced the Choose Medicare Act into the U.S. Senate. The bill closely tracks the recommendations made in a January Article by Jacob Hacker and a February proposal by the Center for American Progress (CAP). Both Hacker and the CAP were leading advocates of […]

As if our worst in the industrialized world healthcare system didn’t have plenty of problems to begin with, the Republican tax cut proposals wending their way through both houses of Congress would decimate healthcare for poor and working class Americans in order to finance tax cuts for corporations and the rich. As currently written, the bills would […]

Like a bad Hollywood action flick, the Republican “repeal and replace” juggernaut just won’t go away. And every sequel is worse than the last. Three times over the past summer the Senate narrowly rejected plans that would have taken away 20 to 30 million Americans’ access to healthcare in order to finance tax cuts for […]

The draft of the Senate healthcare legislation is finally out and it is even worse than the House version. It retains nearly all of the mean-spirited provisions of the House bill–a bill that Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern called “so cartoonishly malicious that I can picture someone twirling their mustache as he drafted it in his […]

Something big is happening. In the face of a relentless assault by the Trump Administration and the Republican Congress on the very idea of social insurance, the movement for expanded and improved Medicare for All is getting stronger every day! On April 8, activists in over 60 cities answered the Campaign for Guaranteed Healthcare’s call […]

The National Single Payer Strategy Conference in New York City this past January 13-15 opened with a demonstration in front of Trump Tower and closed with a march on Wall Street.  Conference sponsors also announced the launching of the Campaign for Guaranteed Healthcare to give voice and shape to the new spirit of activism that […]