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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 […]

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 […]

Our country is at a critical crossroads: we cannot afford to go further down the road of poor access paid for by high and rising costs, and we won’t stand by while Medicare is voucherized, Medicaid is block-granted, the Veterans Administration privatized, and public support for workers’ and low-income peoples’ healthcare is cut. Instead, we […]