Health Care in the United States
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Passing on Single-Payer
National (U.S.) groups working for a single-payer, universal health care system:
- Physicians for a National Health Program: "Physicians for a National Health Program is a single issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health program. PNHP has more than 15,000 members and chapters across the United States. Since 1987, we've advocated for reform in the U.S. health care system. We educate physicians and other health professionals about the benefits of a single-payer system—including fewer administrative costs and affording health insurance for the 46 million Americans who have none."
- Healthcare-NOW!: "Healthcare-NOW's mission is to support the growing movement for a quality, national, single-payer, guaranteed, healthcare system for everybody in this country. We believe this can only be attained by removing the insurance companies from control of our healthcare."
- Universal Health Care Action Network: "UHCAN's mission is to help build, strengthen and connect organizations and coalitions in states and nationally that can effectively engage the public, policymakers and key constituencies to achieve affordable, quality health care for all."
- Americans for Health Care:"Americans for Health Care, a project of SEIU, is the largest grassroots health care reform organization in the country, fighting for quality, affordable health care for everyone."
Selected state organizations pushing for single-payer:
- Mass-Care (Massachusetts)
- Connecticut Coalition for Universal Health Care
- Health Care for All (California)
- Health Care for All (Colorado)
- Health Care for All (Ohio)
- Health Care for All (Oregon)
- Health Care for All (Massachusetts)
- Health Care for All (Washington)
- Health Care for All (Vermont)
- Kentuckians for Single-Payer Health Care
- Floridians for Health Security
- Single-Payer Action Network (Ohio); this site includes an extensive links page listing many more state-level organizations.
- Health Care for All Texas