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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.
Sanders’s Bill Electrifies Growing Single-Payer Movement
Public pressure will be key to overcoming industry resistance.
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Single-Payer Fight Fuels Primary Challengers Against Establishment Democrats
The people are no longer taking "no" for an answer.
“We Can’t Let Our Guard Down”: Republicans Could Use Budget as Cudgel Against Medicaid
The Republican effort to cut taxes for the wealthy by terminating health care for poor and middle-class families is very much alive.
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Everyone Deserves Care: Insisting on Compassion in the Face of Congressional Cruelty
The best measure of a society is its compassion, and our tax dollars should reflect that.
How Civil Disobedience Helped Kill Trumpcare — at Least for Now
The tireless activists who have been engaging in direct action deserve credit for killing the latest round of Trumpcare.
Dr. Carol Paris: We Must Make It Toxic for Politicians to Not Get on Board With Single-Payer
Dr. Carol Paris, president of Physicians for a National Health Program, discusses how people can make the demand for single-payer health care.
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Skipping Doses: Why We Need a Single-Payer Health Care System
When we deny someone a vital medication, we strip them of their right to live, says Karyn Wofford, who has Type 1 diabetes.
Lessons From Vermont: What the State’s Successes and Setbacks Should Teach Us About Single-Payer
Lawmakers could learn valuable lessons from activists working to enact Vermont's single-payer health care law.
Dahr Jamail | The GOP’s Health Care Legislation Is Cruel and Punitive, Doctors Say
The GOP's health plan and discussion around it is both appalling and embarrassing, say health care professionals.
Keeping Up the Pressure: Using Town Halls to Fight Trumpcare and Demand Single-Payer
Town halls are a good way of reminding lawmakers that voters in 2018 will remember incumbents' votes on health care.