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Medicare For All
As GOP Attacks Health Care, Movement for Single-Payer Grows Across Country
Activists are fighting at the state level.
Even Business Leaders Are Realizing Health Insurance Companies Serve No Purpose
Single-payer is moving from pipe dream to possibility.
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.