National Improved Medicare for All

Kentuckians Deliver The Demand For Improved Medicare For All

August 1, 2026 Kay Tillow, Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care. Organize! Congress, Health Care, Kentucky, National Improved Medicare for All

On July 30, 2026, Medicare’s 61st birthday, Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care delivered a demand for passage of Improved Medicare for All to Congresspersons in four Kentucky Congressional Districts. The deliveries took place at the Prestonsburg office of Rep. Hal Rogers of the 5th Congressional District, at the Lexington office of Rep. Andy Barr of the 6th CD, at the LaGrange office of Rep. Thomas Massie of the 4th CD, and at the Louisville office of Rep. Morgan McGarvey of the 3rd CD. Pikeville’s Mountain Top News covered the event in Prestonsburg and interviewed medical student Justin Garrett.

Which Path To National Improved Medicare For All?

June 5, 2026 Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. Strategize! Congress, Health Care, National Improved Medicare for All, Single payer health care

Two states with a long history of state-based healthcare reform efforts, California and New York, are hard at work organizing for state bills labeled as single payer healthcare plans. Other states are moving in that direction too. This raises questions by single payer advocates: Can states create single payer healthcare systems? Does state-level work help or hinder our goal of National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA)? The movement for NIMA gained momentum throughout 2017, largely due to rising premiums under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Republican efforts to worsen the healthcare crisis.

The Declaration Of Independence From The Medical-Industrial Complex

April 27, 2026 National Single Payer, Popular Resistance. Organize! Declaration of Independence, Health Care, Human Rights, National Improved Medicare for All

Skyrocketing health insurance premiums, deductibles, copays, and denials, and crushing medical debt are overwhelming millions of Americans while expired ACA tax credits, life-threatening cuts to Medicaid, and rising health care costs deepen uncertainty for families. The closure of rural hospitals will put millions of rural residents at risk. Historic public support for a national health program, free from insurance companies and financed through progressive taxes, presents us with a new opening for National Improved Medicare for All, free from profit, guaranteeing coverage for everyone, permanently resolving these crises, lowering costs, and ending medical debt.

New Program Is Secretly Privatizing Medicare

December 20, 2021 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Medicare, National Improved Medicare for All, Privatization

A new program is placing Medicare recipients into private health insurance plans without their knowledge or consent in a final effort to fully privatize our national Medicare system. Known as "Direct Contract Entities (DCEs)," this program is putting more of our healthcare system into the hands of private equity to generate enormous profits at the expense of our health. Clearing the FOG speaks about this with Kay Tillow, a long time health care, civil rights and union activist. Tillow explains what these entities are, why they threaten the future of our entire healthcare system and how they block our ability to achieve a national, universal and publicly-financed healthcare system such as national improved Medicare for All. She describes the fight to stop DCEs and win single payer health care.

July 24: National Marches For Medicare For All

July 18, 2021 Popular Resistance. Resist! Congress, Health Care, Medicare for all, National Improved Medicare for All

We are a coalition of groups that are coming together to march for Medicare for All. Who is in that coalition depends on which city you are talking about. There is no one single group behind this. The list seems to grow every day. Some people are even politically homeless and simply focused on doing what they can to move #M4A forward. We are nonpartisan, but some local parties have joined in the fight! We are proud to say that this type of coming together hasn't happened in recent memory, if ever. Our movement was founded from a place of compassion and love. We came together out of frustration with the lack of action from the powers that be. Many of us have our own personal stories as to why we are in this fight. All of us know that healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

A View On Health Care From 2028

December 31, 2020 Chet Gardiner, Popular Resistance. Create! Health Care, Medicare for all, National Improved Medicare for All

I just had my third heart attack. Let me tell you about my previous two. The first was 16 years ago in 2012. After wasting 15-20 minutes with an ER admitting clerk demanding my “insurance information” before I was allowed access to care, a triage nurse hustled me 'backstage'. I was diagnosed with a “minor” MI stopped by doses of nitroglycerin. The following day the artery that had closed up was stented. The day after that I was kicked loose to the street. The 'retail' cost for my two day stay in the hospital and the procedure was around $250,000. My insurance “negotiated” that down to $22,000, co-pay was $2,200 plus $300 per month for prescription drugs over the next year.

Deception 2020: Our SickCare System

October 28, 2020 Eleanor Goldfield, Art Killing Apathy. Resistance Report COVID-19, Health Care, National Improved Medicare for All, Trump

In this third installment of the Deception 2020 Series, we dig into our so-called healthcare system – what would more appropriately be called our sickcare system. Yeah, the US has the ability to offer top notch care and medical support – but out of some 330 million people, how many have access to it? Then, we’re joined by Dr. Margaret Flowers for some more insight into this grossly unequal system, where the candidates stand and who those candidates even get to be!

Doctors Demand Hospital Industry Stop Funding Dark Money Lobby Group

May 29, 2020 By Jake Johnson, Commondreams. Resist! COVID-19, Dark money, Healthcare, Hospitals, National Improved Medicare for All

A progressive organization of 23,000 physicians from across the U.S. demanded Thursday that the American Hospital Association (AHA) divest completely from a dark-money lobbying group that has spent millions combating Medicare for All and instead devote those financial resources to the fight against Covid-19 and to better support for patients and healthcare workers. Dr. Adam Gaffney, president of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), said in a statement that "the Covid-19 pandemic has stretched hospitals' resources to the limit, and the AHA should not waste precious member hospitals' funds lobbying against universal health coverage" as a member of the Partnership for America's Health Care Future (PFAHCF).

Study Shows Medicare For All Could Save $600 Billion Annually

January 12, 2020 Jake Johnson, Commondreams. Create! National Improved Medicare for All, New Economy, Single payer health care

Insurers and healthcare providers in the United States spent a staggering $812 billion on paperwork and other administrative burdens in 2017 alone, bureaucratic costs that could be dramatically reduced by switching to a single-payer system like Medicare for All. That's according to a study published Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, which found that administrative costs amounted to 34.2 percent of total U.S. national health expenditures in 2017—twice the amount Canada spent on healthcare administration that same year. The study's authors noted that U.S. healthcare providers impose "a hidden surcharge" on patients "to cover their costly administrative burden." U.S. insurers and providers spent $2,497 per person on healthcare administration in 2017 while Canada spent just $551 per capita, the study found.

We Are The Majority; We Must Turn That Into Power

December 29, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Newsletter Climate Change, Healthcare, Inequality, militarism, National Improved Medicare for All

Over the last decade, a national consensus has developed for a progressive left agenda on the economy, social services and ending wars but the movement has not built the power to make that a reality. The next decade will be ripe with opportunities for transformational change due to a combination of expanding popular movements as well as escalating crisis situations. Positive change will only occur if these movements evolve into an organized popular movement that truly represents the people's interests against the elites. The movement must protect the planet at this critical time of climate crisis against the profiteering of the planet-plundering capitalist class. We must stand against continued militarism, bloated and wasteful weapons spending, military conflict and regime change imperialism.

Medicare For All In The Democratic Party: Corporate Money vs. The People

August 3, 2019 By Anna Attie, In These Times Educate! 2020 Elections, National Improved Medicare for All, Single payer health care

The US House of Representatives this week showed it is standing with the political consensus in the Democratic Party. Now, a majority of the House Democrats has signed on to the HR 1384, the Medicare for All Act of 2019. A political consensus has developed in the Democratic Party among its voters, but its leadership continues to try to please those who profit from the current wasteful and expensive insurance-based system that does not meet the needs of people in the United States. Sen. Kamala Harris, who put forward an unacceptable so-called Medicare for all plan, has been trying to hide her donations from the industry. The Intercept exposed how her campaign is receiving funding from pharmaceutical executives while saying it is not taking such funds.

Surge In Lobbying Opposed To Medicare For All

June 30, 2019 Craig Sandler, Public Citizen. Educate! Congress, Healthcare, Lobbyists, National Improved Medicare for All

Between the first quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019, lobbying on Medicare for All increased dramatically, almost entirely due to a surge in lobbying activity by organizations that oppose it. This indicates that opponents of Medicare for All are newly scared about its rising prospects. The diverse and powerful array of trade groups, conservative activist organizations, GOP-linked establishment groups and health care industry interests launching an all-out advertising blitz against Medicare for All further reinforces this reality. The number of organizations hiring lobbyists to work on Medicare for All increased from nine in the first quarter of 2018 to 61 in the first quarter of 2019 – a nearly sevenfold increase. The number of individual federal lobbyists working on Medicare for All increased from 29 in the first quarter of 2018 to 270 in the first quarter of 2019 – a ninefold increase.

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