single payer

  • Oregon Activists Look to Grassroots Approach to Win Universal Health Care
    Peter Shapiro
    May 14 2012 - 1:16pm

    Oregon activists are responding to escalating health care costs by rejuvenating a grassroots campaign to win a system that covers everyone—and pays for it by cutting out the insurance companies.

  • Why Did Single-Payer Health Care Fail in California?

    Though it’s passed the legislature twice before, a bill to establish a single-payer universal health insurance system in California failed in the state senate in January. Democrats and much of labor hung back, showing how the national health care law looms over state efforts.

  • Open Season on Old People

    Outside the McNamara Federal Building in Detroit, a group of angry people stood together to let Senator Carl Levin know he better not vote for the real death panels: cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

  • Still Paying Through the Nose, Labor Campaigns for Single Payer
    Andy Coates
    Jun 8 2011 - 10:59am

    A year after President Obama signed his health care reform with strong support from the labor movement, advocates of a single-payer system might be tempted to ask, “How’s that working out for you?” Labor Campaign for Single Payer activists gathered in D.C. to assess their progress.

  • Health Care for All Takes Big Stride in Vermont
    Jenny Brown
    Apr 27 2011 - 1:09pm

    Vermont is as close to winning “single-payer” health care legislation any U.S. state have ever been. Activists are fighting for every inch as they near the goal line: Legislation ensuring health care for all has passed both houses and was reconciled May 3.

  • May Day Marches See Labor Join Immigrants' Struggle for Rights
    Eduardo Soriano-Castillo
    May 2 2011 - 3:53pm

    Tens of thousands marched nationwide May Day, demanding an end to attacks on workers and immigrants. “We have had all we can take,” said an immigrant organizer, noting record deportations.

  • Town Hall Meetings Say No to Cutting Social Security

    I can’t help but think that the folks behind the “America Speaks” town hall meetings, held June 26 in 19 cities across the country, were shell-shocked by the results. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and, principally, the foundation of Wall Street financier Peter Peterson had spent big bucks designing a program that would make participants see the need to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in order to reduce the federal deficit.

  • May Day Protests Gain Urgency as Immigration, Health Care Fights Explode
    By Jonathan Kissam
    May 3 2010 - 1:25pm

    Saturday’s May Day marches across the country took on new urgency as activists opposed Arizona’s sweeping anti-immigrant laws and supported a single-payer plan in the states.

  • Health Care Bill's Hidden Pitfalls

    The version of health insurance legislation that passed the House of Representatives Sunday will affect workers in ways both obvious and not so obvious.

  • 'Toxic' Health Bill or No, Labor's 'Medicare for All' Activists Dig In

    When I told friends I was on my way to the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer conference, held last weekend, they all said, “I bet that’ll be a bunch of long faces.” I predicted not—these were people who’d always known the health care reform debate in Congress would come up short. Yet the 124 delegates to the March 5-7 conference in Washington were upbeat.