Single Payer Now is a grassroots advocacy group in California. We educate and organize activists to advocate for health care without the insurance industry.
A Vision for Health Care Without Insurance
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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Occupy Healthcare
Two years ago, on October 15th, demonstrations took place across the country at 15 health insurance company offices. Protesters were demanding that insurance companies immediately grant approval of all medically necessary services to patients who were currently being denied treatment. These requests were met with a typical P.R. response that goes something like “we appreciate…
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“They told me it would never happen…”
A week ago today, the New York State Senate passed the Marriage Equality Act by a vote of 33-29. Thirty days after the bill is signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo, it will grant same sex couples the same legal rights as heterosexual couples. New York will become the sixth state in the union…
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Out in Force
On Monday, April 4, we collected 354 single payer postcards at the “Stop the Attacks on Working People” Rallies in Oakland and San Francisco. Collecting postcards is a wonderful way to engage the public and gain support for SB 810 and single payer. This activity is an integral part of our existence. It enables activists…
News & Video
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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.