Single Payer Now is a grassroots advocacy group in California. We educate and organize activists to advocate for health care without the insurance industry.
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The near future of the single payer movement is very promising. CalCare will be reintroduced in 2023. Join us to promote single-payer healthcare in California.
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What Is Single Payer?
In a single payer system, all health care providers would bill one entity for their services. This reduces administrative waste and saves money.
Why Single Payer?
We have a monster insurance bureaucracy that wastes at least 31 cents of every health care dollar, but fails to give us health security.
Why SPN?
Since 1994, Single Payer Now has advocated for progressive health policies and educated individuals about single-payer healthcare models.
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From the Blog
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Congressman Ryan Hides After Trying to Attack Medicare in San Francisco
Congressman Ryan Hides After Trying to Attack Medicare in San Francisco From Don Bechler of Single Payer Now – Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) came to SF on May 24 to raise funds for his attacks on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and Gay Marriage. He is the point person for the 1% attacks on our social…
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Healthcare is a Human Right & Celebrating May Day in the City of Angels
Back in December, Occupy LA put out the call for a general strike on May 1st 2012. The points of unity were: immigrant rights, economic, social and environmental justice. For labor rights, peace, civil liberties and ending the police state. For housing, education and healthcare as human rights, and for women’s rights, LGBTQ rights and…
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LA Solidarity Rally & Speakout
On Monday, January 9, hundreds of single payer healthcare activists took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles staging a New Orleans style, jazz funeral procession through the financial district, complete with an eight-piece band. The “funeral” mourned the losses of the thousands of people who die each year either because they lacked health insurance,…
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Don Bechler, 1947 – 2020
Don Bechler, the founder and director of Single Payer Now, passed away on October 24, 2020. After taking a break to grieve the loss of Don, we are now trying to revive SPN in his absence.
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Medicare for All, or Medicare for More?
Even in this early stage of the 2020 race, nearly all of President Donald Trump’s would-be opponents have staked out their support for expanding health-care coverage.
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The Health 202: Jayapal to roll out sweeping Medicare-for-All bill by month’s end
Jayapal said she’s confident she’ll have 100 co-sponsors by the time of the bill’s planned Feb. 26 release, explaining she’s not surprised members would take more time to consider it given its length.