Healthcare-NOW Actions & Events

Given the fact that the US spends 2.5 times the average of other industrialized countries, yet we don’t provide healthcare to everyone; and that Medical outcomes such as infant mortality and life expectancy, and equality of access, are much better in other countries; and that 58% of all Americans support Medicare for All, including 81%…

Check out the exciting single-payer developments in Oregon over the last couple months: New Staff at Health Care for All Oregon Two new staff joined the statewide coalition this month! Robert Lee, the new Executive Director, worked as a policy analyst in state government for several years, developing anti-poverty reforms with a focus on healthcare,…

Healthcare-NOW’s very first book club has just been launched! Starting Friday, May 6 through Thursday, June 9, we’ll be reading Gerard Boychuck’s National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, Territory, and the Roots of Difference. All discussions will be online, so you can participate on your own schedule! If you’d like to…

Exciting news from Minnesota: following the recommendation of the state’s healthcare financing task force, Minnesota governor Mark Dayton asked the legislature last week to finance a study of the costs and benefits of a single-payer system. Minnesota’s political landscape is one of the most promising in the country; the state is highly Democratic, and one…

March 22nd, 2016 Chairs and Members of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, My name is Benjamin Day, Executive Director of Healthcare-NOW, the national advocacy organization for single-payer healthcare. I ask you to favorably report out the two bills related to instituting a single-payer healthcare system for Massachusetts (House 1026, Senate 579 and House…

Dr. Quentin Young, one of the most extraordinary leaders in our movement and a founding member of both Physicians for a National Health Program and Healthcare-NOW, died on March 7, 2016, surrounded by family, at the age of 92. Dr. Young was a founding member of the Committee to End Racial Discrimination in Chicago Medical…