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Single-Payer Organizations

  • Single-Payer Organizations
    • National – 2
    • State and Local – 50 organizations in 32 states … over 50 organizations when one counts the active local chapters, such as in Indiana and Texas

Note: also see Endorsers — organizations which endorse single-payer.

Single-Payer Organizations: National

National Organizations Devoted to Educating Citizens about Single-Payer

Organizations

 Notes
Healthcare-Now! Citizens
– an e-mail distribution list of about 50,000 members
– over 300 activists nationally
– member of LCGHC
– sponsor of SiCKOCure
Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) Physicians; students; medical residents; other health professionals; health reform advocates
- Over 14,000 members
- Mission = single-payer national health insurance
- Hundreds of PNHP physicians have been educating their colleagues and the public since 1987 – over 20 years!
- the only national physician organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to implementing a single-payer national health program
– member of LCGHC
– sponsor of SiCKOCure

Note: If the Notes could be improved or corrected based on information clearly documented at this web page, then please communicate to me where the that information is located. When it’s clearly communicated at a web site, then I can clearly communicate it here. Thanks. – Bob

State and Local Organizations

State and Local Organizations Focused on H.R. 676 Single-Payer National Health Insurance and/or state-based single-payer efforts

Organizations

 Notes
Arizona:
Arizonans for Responsible Health Care
AFRHC web site 		From the organization homepage one can select “Info Resource” to access information about:
National focus:
Select “Single Payer Healthcare Explained”
State focus:
Select “Declaration of Health Care Reform”
California:
California Physicians’ Alliance
(CaPA web site) 		National focus:
The California Physicians’ Alliance is a chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program and is focused on bringing a single-payer health program to California and to America. (from homepage)
State focus:
Provides information about state legislation.
California:
Health Care for All – California 		State focus
“We support (the establishment of the) California Health Care System …” (from the Basic Questions web page). See their website for the OneCareNow campaign, a “grassroots campaign for universal healthcare” … sponsored by Health Care for All - California.” From there you can purchase DVD copy of the outstanding video to which I also provide a link with comments.
California:
Single Payer Now and the
California Universal Health Care
Organizing Project
(web site) 		State focus:
A grassroots association of volunteers supporting Universal Single Payer Healthcare for California since 1994.
National focus:
Based on a mailing that I received, I know that this organization is definitely active regarding single-payer national health insurance as per education and actions related to H.R.676. I sent them a request that they document on their web site that the H.R. 676 activity is part of their mission or purpose.
Colorado:
Health Care for All Colorado 		State focus
” … build a grassroots movement that will campaign for the single-payer system in Colorado.” (from the About page)
Connecticut:
Connecticut Coalition for
Universal Health Care
(web site) 		State focus::
– Connecticut Senate Bill 482
National focus:
– web site content by Dr. John R. Battista M.D.
Delaware:
Delaware Unified Civic / Political Association
(web site) 		State focus:
Select “Health Care Reform” to see …
“Our single payer Delaware Health Security Act is structured and will operate like our very successful single payer Medicare/Medicaid Act and program.”
Delaware:
Delaware Valley chapter of Physicians for a National Health program 		National focus:
See the PNHP description.
Joint mailing list with the Philadelphia Area Committee to Defend Health Care.
Florida:
Floridians for Health Security
(web site) 		State focus:
“… political action committee established by law in Florida to promote A Constitutional Amendment Petition Drive in Florida to provide high quality health care for all Floridians …” (from the homepage)
Florida:
Health Care for All Florida 		National focus
A petition is available at which to indicate one’s support for “comprehensive, high-quality healthcare … for American residents …” via supplying name, address, phone number, and email address.
Florida:
Tampa Bay Physicians for a National Health Program
(web site) 		National focus:
See the PNHP description.
Georgia:
Georgians for a Common Sense Health Plan
(GCSHP web site) 		State focus::
– select About, then Georgia Secure Care
Idaho:
Idaho Health Care for All 		National focus
Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program
(from the homepage)
See the PNHP description.
Illinois:
Health Care for All Illinois 		State focus
” … is a statewide coalition advocating a single-payer “Medicare for All” health system to guarantee access to comprehensive, equal health care for all Illinoisians.”
— from the homepage
Illinois:
Illinois Single Payer Coalition 		National focus
We are a coalition of groups and individuals throughout Illinois working to enact a single-payer system for financing health care. - on their mission web page
The web page does not state if their focus is national or state (as of 10 May 2009).
Indiana:
Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan
(web site) 		National focus:
“HCHP is a state affiliate of Physicians for a National Health Program and supports its goal of national single-payer health insurance.” (from the homepage)
See the PNHP description. State focus:
“… support … (single payer) at the state and national level.” (from the homepage)

Associated Chapters
Northeast Indiana chapter based in Fort Wayne IN
Southeast Indiana chapter based in Jeffersonville IN, Indiana’s 9th U.S. Congressional District.
Indiana:
Indiana: Citizens Action Coalition
(web site) 		National focus:
“… advocates for a single payer health care system …” (from the Issues Area on Health Care web page)
The CAC Membership Survey Results: “The most supported option (for health care) was extending Medicare to everyone.” (from the homepage)
Kansas:
Heartland Health Care for All
(web site) 		National focus:
“… group of community members, doctors, medical students, nurses, other health professionals, and victims of the current health care advocating for a sane solution to the crisis of healthcare access in the United States. As a group we advocate a single National Healthcare Plan …” (from About page)
Kentucky:
Kentucky Health Care
(web site) 		National focus:
” … working to pass universal, single payer health insurance as embodied in the plan of the Physicians for a National Health Program and in HR 676 …” (from the homepage)
Maine:
Midcoast Health Care Reform
(web site) 		National focus:
“… Maine citizens concerned about the rising costs for health care, and the need to provide health care for everyone in the United States.” - from the home page
Maine:
Maine People’s Alliance
health care campaign
(web site) 		State focus:
“Help us win Universal Single-Payer Health Care for Maine!” from the health care page
Maryland:
Maryland Universal Health Care Action Network
(web site) 		National focus:
“HR 676: MD UHCAN supports this Congressional resolution for single payer, The US National Health Insurance Act (“Expanded and Improved Medicare for All”).” (from the homepage)
Massachusetts:
Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care
(web site) 		State focus:
“Mass-Care’s mission is to establish a single payer health care system in Massachusetts …”
Michigan:
Michigan for Single-Payer
web site 		National focus:
Citizens educating citizens. Committed to educating Michiganders about single-payer national health insurance and getting citizens to participate in the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign by U.S. Congressional Districts. Our web pages are at the web pages that are maintained by the Million Letters for Health Care campaign … by U.S. Congressional District.
Michigan:
Single-Payer Michigan
web site 		National focus:
Citizens educating citizens. Committed to educating Michiganders about single-payer national health insurance and getting citizens to participate in the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign by U.S. Congressional Districts.
Minnesota:
Greater Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition
(GMHCC web site) 		National focus:
- Select Health Care to access the article which states “universal health care (single-payer) confers the greatest number of advantages.”
State focus:
Prescription Drug Partnership Program
Minnesota:
Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition
(MUHCC web site) 		- “MUHCC is dedicated to establishing comprehensive single-payer health care for all Minnesotans through advocacy, education, lobbying, and community organizing.” (from homepage)
State focus:
Provides information about Minnesota Health Care Act and Minnesota Health Plan.
Missouri:
Missourians for Single-Payer
(web site) 		State focus:
State focus:
Focused on Missouri legislation to establish single-payer state health insurance (from About page)
Montana:
Montanans for Single-Payer
(web site) 		National focus:
” … activate a network of Montanans whenever there is a decision on health care reform coming up in Washington, D.C. urging citizens to contact Senators Baucus and Tester, Representative Denny Rehberg, and President Barack Obama.” (from About Us page)
New Jersey:
Health Care for All / New Jersey
web site 		National focus:
See What We Believe for what the group also calls their guiding principles.
New York:
PNHP Capital District
(blog) 		National focus:
See the PNHP description.
New York:
PNHP New York Metro Chapter
(web site) 		National focus:
See the PNHP description.
North Carolina:
Health Care for All NC 		State focus:
Changed name to “Health Care for All” July 2007. In 2008 the web site is being reviewed to have it reflect their focus on establishing single-payer in North Carolina. As a result, I do not yet have a web page link – Bob.
Ohio:
Health Care for All Ohio 		National focus:
“… committed to educate Ohioans on national single payer health insurance.” (from the homepage)
Ohio:
PNHP Ohio
(web site) 		National focus:
See the PNHP description.
Ohio:
Single-Payer Action Network - Ohio
(web site) 		State focus:
State actions toward national single-payer:
Focused on Ohio legislation to establish single-payer state health insurance: “While campaigning to win single-payer health care in Ohio, we see this as a stepping stone toward achieving a national single-payer health care system, which is our ultimate goal.” (from the About page)
Oregon:
Health Care for All Oregon 		State focus
” … single-payer health care system for every resident of the state.” (from the homepage)
Pennsylvania:
Citizen Solutions for PA
(web site) 		State focus:
“Single payer health care: if we build it, he will sign.” (from the homepage)
National focus:
Links regarding H.R. 676 (from Resources page)
Pennsylvania:
Health Care for All Pennsylvania 		State focus
” … founded in 2006 to secure a comprehensive single payer health care system for every citizen of Pennsylvania.” (from the About page) .. and “citizens educating citizens about Pennsylvania’s Family and Business Healthcare Security Act” (from the blog)
Pennsylvania:
Philadelphia Area Committee to Defend Health Care
(PACDHC web site) 		State focus:
Example activity: conference titled “The Single Payer Solution: The Real Way to Universal Health Care” held on 1/12/2008; Statewide Single-Payer Universal Health Care Convention (in support of HB 1660 and SB 300)
National focus:
“a group of doctors, nurses, health care workers, union members, activists, and others who are working together to build a health care system that guarantees accessible, quality health care for all Americans (from the homepage)
Joint mailing list with the Delaware Valley chapter of Physicians for a National Health program. See the PNHP description.
Pennsylvania:
Western PA Coalition for Single-Payer Healthcare
(web site) 		National focus:
“Working for passage of the “United States National Health Insurance Act” … (H.R. 676)” (from the homepage)
South Carolina:
South Carolinians 4 Universal Health Care 		National focus:
“SC4UHC Vision: Single Payer Health Insurance” as seen on their homepage where a link is provided that explains H.R. 676.
Texas:
Health Care for All Texas 		State focus
“… supports single payer universal health care. This can best be accomplished by:
– 1) state implementation of TIP: The Texas Health Insurance Plan, or …”
(from homepage)
National focus:
” … 2) national passage of U.S. H.R. 676, The United States National Health Insurance Act
(from homepage)
Texas:
Protest Health Care
(web site) 		National focus:
Promotes H.R. 676.
Vermont:
Vermont Health Care for All 		State focus
“… we present (information) and entertain discussions about a universal health care system - what it is, what it could mean for Vermont, for Vermont’s total health care costs, what it could mean for individual Vermonters, …” [from the overview web page)
National focus:
A petition to print and have signed for H.R. 676 supporters is provided. (from the homepage)
Virginia:
Hampton Roads Single Payer Action Network HRSPAN 		National focus:
Promotes H.R. 676

Single-Payer Movement Organization by U.S. Congressional District:: HR-SPAN Mission: To Organize The Hampton Roads Community To Advocate for Single Payer National Health Insurance As Represented in H.R 676. - as per the homepage
Virginia:
Virginia Coalition for Guaranteed Health Care
 National focus:
Promotes H.R. 676

Coalition:: Virginia Physicians for a National Health Program,Progressive Democrats of America-Virginia, Healthcare-NOW!
Washington:
Health Care for All – Washington 		State focus
“We advocate for secure, affordable, and comprehensive health care coverage for all Washington residents …” (from the What We Do page) “a single, unified system(from an FAQ web page)
Washington:
PNHP Western Washington
(web site) 		National focus:

- a double-sided tri-fold flyer (doc) includes a list of How National Health Insurance Helps Me (me, a physician) - a link to “A Shared Destiny: Community Effects of Underinsurance” which details how uninsurance affects all of us and our communities. - Google group: Health care providers and others committed to the goal of National Health Insurance for everyone. - See the PNHP description. State focus:
Provides information about state health care legislation.
Washington (Bellingham WA):
United for National Health Care 		National focus
“… organizing and advocating for a National Single-Payer Healthcare System …” - from homepage
West Virginia:
Eastern Panhandle Single-Payer Action Network
(web site) 		National focus:
Upper Potomac chapter of PNHP.
See the PNHP description.
West Virginia:
Mountain State PNHP
(web site) 		National focus:
See the PNHP description.
Wisconsin:
The Coalition for Wisconsin Health
(web site) 		National focus:
“… collaborative of 60 … organizations, working to reform health care in the United States. … an affiliate of PNHP.
See the PNHP description.

References

SiCKO Cure
 SiCKO Cure is a project of Physicians for a National Health Program, California Nurses Association / National Nurses Organizing Committee and HealthCare-NOW!
LCGHC LCGHC stands for Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care - a clearinghouse and umbrella coordination for the Health Care for All movement.
- effort that started in late 2007
- a Progressive Democrats of America activity that “helps member organizations utilize their respective resources, capacity and constituencies to educate, advocate and agitate to pass H.R. 676” (from the homepage)
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