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Nina Turner will be the keynote speaker for the Single-Payer Strategy Conference in New York City, January 13-15. This video is of Nina Turner speaking at The People’s Summit in Chicago, June 17, 2016, on why she decided to back Senator Bernie Sanders for President, why her mother’s early death called her to the fight…

In the aftermath of the 2016 election, Healthcare-NOW partnered with Progressive Democrats of America to host this emergency conference call with Senator Bernie Sanders’s healthcare aide, Lori Kearns, to provide essential information about the likely attacks on public and private healthcare programs, and to start a discussion of how the single-payer movement can fight back…

This informational webinar on Colorado’s Amendment 69 was held by the ColoradoCare Yes campaign and hosted/facilitated by Healthcare-NOW on August 11, 2016. It runs about 1 hr and includes a 20-minute Q&A at the end. Thanks to the National Healthcare for the Homeless Council for use of their webinar service. Webinar Slides Still have unanswered…

“If this is controversial in this room, it is the only room of Democrats in which it is controversial.” Michael Lighty of National Nurses United said this to the Democratic Platform Committee on July 9, 2016, before it voted down his proposed amendment to include single-payer healthcare in the Party Platform, by a vote of…

On Friday June 24, the Democratic Party’s Platform Drafting Committee rejected an amendment that would have committed the Party to fight for Medicare for All, by a 7-to-6 vote. The vote is a slap in the face to the 81% of Democrats who support Medicare for All. Many believed that the Platform process would be…

Comedian Seth Meyers – host of his own late night talk show – spends 9 minutes ripping into the harebrained Republican proposals for replacing Obamacare and breaking down, hilariously, many of the issues with our current healthcare system. We thought Meyers did a great job, with one exception – what single payer myth did he…

Stephanie Nakajima, our Director of Communications, tells her healthcare story: Please tell us your story here!