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Fighting for Our Lives: The Movement for Medicare for All
Covering the campaign for single payer, its intersections with other movements and the millions of lives it will affect.


How Can the US Confront Coronavirus With 28 Million People Uninsured?
The coronavirus has highlighted the moral imperative and the pragmatic rationale for universal health care.

Nevada Is a Big Test for Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All Plan
Will Joe Biden’s attacks on Medicare for All backfire in the Silver State?

Medicare for All Helps Unions by Taking Health Care Off the Bargaining Table
When health care is treated as a universal right, bosses cannot use it as a bargaining tool against workers.

In New Hampshire and Beyond, Medicare for All Is Fueling Sanders’s Rise
Polls show that New Hampshire primary voters consider health care to be the most important issue in the election.

In 2020, It’s Time to Make Universal Health Care a Human Right
It’s wrong for both the quality and the duration of our lives to be determined by our income.

Right-Wing Attacks on Sanders Show Misunderstanding of Single-Payer
Right-wing critics either don't understand the issue or are intentionally misleading the public.

As Single-Payer Gains Traction, Industry Launches Attack Ads
The insurance and drug lobbies are attacking Medicare for All and pushing to keep the massively profitable ACA.

Under Trump, More People Live Without Health Coverage
Ongoing efforts to sabotage Medicaid and deny coverage to immigrant families will increase the uninsured.

Meet the Health Care Industry’s Favorite Democrats
If Democrats are going to control the House, the health care industry wants to control these Democrats.

Why a National Health System Is Needed to Slow the Opioid Crisis
A system that views health care as a commodity and patients as consumers will never overcome the crisis.