Health Care for All
via the Single-Payer Movement

The national single-payer movement is the movement to improve health care in the United States by implementing non-profit single-payer national health insurance, an improved Medicare for All.

The short-term goal is Health Care Access for All.

The ultimate goal is Good Health for All.

• Health Care Access

  • We need to get …
    • The Law — We need to get the U.S. Congress and the U.S. President to establish non-profit financing of health care: single-payer national health insurance, an improved Medicare for All.
    • Our Cards — We will then get the resulting health insurance cards into the hands of all of us.
  • Then we will then need to work for …
    • Maintenance of the Improvement.
    • Ongoing efforts will help ensure that the United States does not backslide on this critical accomplishment.
      • Single-payer must be “accountable to the people” and “insulated from the Legislature.”¹
      • The public agency that does the functions of the single-payer must remain independent of the normal day-to-day decision-making in the U.S. Congress and, therefore, independent of those thousands of lobbyists and companies who work hard every day to influence the U.S. Congress.

• Good Health for All

  • Health Care for All “is only the first step towards a larger goal: good health for all.” ²
    • Expanded and improved education for prevention of diseases via healthy habits
    • Testing for early detection and doing early intervention regarding diseases
    • Taking practical action steps in our society to “put prevention into America.” ³

More About the Movement

Bible of the Single-Payer Movement

Many people consider the “bible” of the movement to be the book “Health Care Meltdown” by Bob LeBow, to whom this website and campaign are dedicated. Bob’s book refers to “health care for all” throughout his book.

The associated “Help Get Care” action steps focus on getting the legislation signed into law before 10-10-10 and our having national health cards in our hands in 2012, since H.R. 676 specifies the date on which the law will take effect: 1-1-2012 (when the law is signed in 2010).

“We must form a (single-payer) movement that matches Martin Luther King’s movement for civil liberties.”