medicare for all

In January, 2025, following the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, National Single Payer and single-payer activists across the country responded to the righteous anger of the people rising against the health insurance industry by writing a “Manifesto,” which included these four demands:

• The recognition by our government that healthcare is a human right.
• The elimination of private health insurance and the banning of for-profit delivery of care.
• The enactment of a publicly financed, national single-payer program that would provide comprehensive coverage to everyone.
• The transformation of care delivery from profit-seeking ventures into services organized to serve the people of our country, a system in which all caregivers are freed from corporate control.

We called for people across the country to join us in the street on May 31 to raise the demand and put single payer on the nation’s agenda, a reference to the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ 2025 Proposition Agenda released last year which conspicuously omitted a national single-payer program from its agenda (or support for a cease-fire in Gaza).