Total Number of Members
in Selected Supportive / Endorsing Organizations

As of June 2008:
Over 27 Million Americans

Total number for the selected organizations below

Over 27 million About 27,492,000

Selections that were made from known endorsers:

American College of Physicians national organization of internists	124,000
American Medical Students Association	68,000
American Nurses Association	2,900,000
General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church	8,000,000
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)	500,000
National Organization of Women	500,000
United Church of Christ	1,400,000

Examples among the supporting unions:

State AFL-CIO’s which endorse H.R. 676	8,800,000
National Education Association (NEA)	3,200,000
Service Employees International Union	2,000,000

• Explanation. The above partial list is a set of examples of organizations which are endorsers / supporters, along with the number of members of those organization. None of the numbers is meant to indicate that every individual member of every organization is a single-payer supporter.
  • An organization’s leaders often decide to endorse H.R. 676 on behalf of their members. In some cases a key national group of the organization has established a resolution(s) which strongly encourages all members of the organization to strongly / vigorously support H.R. 676.
  • For an individual member to support what their organization endorses and supports, it is necessary for that member to be informed about Improved Medicare for All. Then the individual person can knowledgeably decide if their opinion agrees with the opinion of their organization’s leaders or committee who also learned about single-payer.

AFL-CIO means “The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations”