Please Sign the Open Letter to the AFL-CIO
As the AFL-CIO prepares for its quadrennial convention September 8-11 in Los Angeles, a number of unions have gone public to expose the new stresses that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) places on their...
View ArticleACA Briefing Paper: 10 Things Unions Need to Look Out for When Bargaining...
10 Things Unions Need to Look Out for When Bargaining Under Obamacare The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been the law of the land since 2010. Although its key Medicaid provision has been significantly...
View Article2014 National Strategy Conference Outcomes
The Labor Campaign for Single Payer held its largest ever strategy conference August 22-24 in Oakland, CA. Over 300 attendees packed the joint session at the historic ILWU Local 6 Hall, which was...
View ArticleTough News Out of Vermont
On December 17, Vermont Governor Shumlin announced that he was suspending his efforts to implement Green Mountain Care (Act 48), the 2011 law that makes healthcare a right for every Vermonter. He had...
View ArticleBack to the basics, folks — Single-payer reform means $$ for you and me
By Larry Smith, American SiCKO Single-payer health care reform (some call it improved and expanded Medicare for all for life) isn’t just good for those folks under 65 who aren’t yet on Medicare....
View ArticleNow is the Time for Green Mountain Care
An Open Letter to Governor Shumlin and the Vermont Legislature from National Advocates for Universal, Publicly Financed Healthcare In 2011, the Vermont Legislature passed and Governor Shumlin signed...
View ArticleFive Years In – How’s the Affordable Care Act Doing? A Diagnosis
Hard to believe it’s been five years since Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on March 23, 2010. The bloviating, vein-popping right-wing still goes ballistic at mere mention of the word...
View ArticleWhy Won’t Corporate America Support Single Payer Medicare-for-All?
An Opinion Piece by Mark Dudzic, National Coordinator On the surface, it appears to be a no-brainer. Healthcare costs in the U. S. are twice as high as any other industrialized country. Most large...
View ArticleNY State Assembly Passes Single Payer Bill!
On May 27 the New York State Assembly overwhelmingly passed the “New York Health Act” (A. 5062). The bill would eliminate private health insurance and cover all New Yorkers in a publicly financed...
View ArticleACA Briefing Paper: Turning Chevys Into Cadillacs: The ACA Excise Tax and the...
Beginning in 2018, the so-called “Cadillac Tax”—a 40% excise tax on all health insurance plan costs in excess of certain limits–will take effect. This tax has the potential to turn every contract...
View ArticleHealthcare PowerPoint for Trade Unionists
Healthcare is at the heart of every battle unions face today. Every contract dispute and campaign is connected to health insurance: Whose going to pay what share of the premium? How much more are the...
View ArticleWhat We Learned in Chicago
The 2016 National Single Payer Strategy Conference was truly an historic event. For the first time in decades, national single payer advocacy organizations came together around a joint agenda and...
View ArticleHealthcare and Taxes: Don’t believe the hype. Sign the petition!
As Daniel Patrick Moynihan was fond of saying, “You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts.” It is important to keep this in mind as the Democratic presidential...
View ArticleDNC votes down single payer… again. But the genie can’t be put back in the...
Despite the fact that 81% of all Democrats support single payer, this past Saturday the full DNC Platform committee voted 92 to 66 against an amendment that would have added Medicare for All to the...
View ArticleRegister for the 2017 National Single Payer Strategy Conference! Join...
Register Now Registration is now open for the National Single Payer Strategy Conference in New York City, January 13 through 15, 2017. This year’s conference will be jointly sponsored by the...
View ArticleNew LCSP Briefing Paper: Multi-Employer Plans, Taft-Hartley Funds & Single...
Unions often participate in multi-employer plans and Taft-Hartley health and welfare funds to provide healthcare coverage for their members. These plans often provide some of the best healthcare...
View ArticleCampaign for Guaranteed Healthcare Launched
Our country is at a critical crossroads: we cannot afford to go further down the road of poor access paid for by high and rising costs, and we won’t stand by while Medicare is voucherized, Medicaid is...
View ArticleFighting for Healthcare for All in the Age of Trump
The National Single Payer Strategy Conference in New York City this past January 13-15 opened with a demonstration in front of Trump Tower and closed with a march on Wall Street. Conference sponsors...
View ArticleSix Ways Trumpcare Makes Healthcare Worse (and one way to make it better)
The Affordable Care Act never really solved the healthcare crisis. It treated healthcare as a commodity allocated through market forces rather than as a public good and failed to address the...
View ArticleMomentum!
Something big is happening. In the face of a relentless assault by the Trump Administration and the Republican Congress on the very idea of social insurance, the movement for expanded and improved...
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