Nurses for Single Payer

08/25/2025

Nurses for Single Payer is now also Nurses and Friends for Single Payer because we are all in this together. Not getting our emails? See the latest Things to Know and Do info here.

As a nonprofit (c)(4) we want to maximize the opportunities for community engagement, single payer advocacy in the legislature, and support for select candidates.

05/16/2025

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/04/29/medicare-social-security-cuts-congress-inhumane/83326434007/?akid=260758.33034.RbraNu&rd=1&t=1

So, what would happen without Medicaid? My patients will be forced to forgo lifesaving care, and they will die.

02/18/2025

https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2025/02/portland-city-council-calls-on-providence-leaders-to-return-to-talks-with-nurses-union-end-strike.html

In an email, 11 of the city council’s 12 members urged a return to the bargaining table, calling it a matter of public health and safety.

01/28/2025

https://zeteo.com/p/rfk-10-most-insane-comments-conspiracies?fbclid=IwY2xjawIF6phleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHaCGwKl60M6Ddle2vgVO3bIXx6tDfiQ20-RFTD-yCNxnLkOrIB3ru6MJkQ_aem_MVt6n_z9G5JoH0zadBVBTg

Meet America’s next head of Health and Human Services. It’s scarier than you think.

12/18/2024

What we need to ask ourselves is why we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthcare for all people. Listen to Democracy Now coverage on 12/16 beginning at 35:36. Includes the "United Health Care Song".

A daily independent global news hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González. “Lawless”: Marwan Bishara on Israel Bombing Syria 800 Times & Expanding Occupation of Golan Heights; South Korea Impeaches President as Demands Grow for Democratic Reforms; Reporter Ken Klippenstein on Publishing Luigi Mangi...

10/15/2024

08/17/2024

ICYMI - This bears further sharing!

"In the Olympic Village in Paris, everyone has free healthcare as a human right. In America, 1 in 4 cancer patients go bankrupt or lose their homes because of the outrageously high cost of care."

08/07/2024

Join a Universal Health Plan Governance Board Committee! Apply today!

07/19/2024

"Healthcare Workers leading the way!"

Here in Oregon, we continue to see some of the most inspirational worker-led actions at healthcare institutions across the state.

07/15/2024

Nurses who moved north during the Great Migration worked in New York City’s most contagious sanatorium — and changed the course of public health history.

03/24/2024

Whew - yes - the "National Embarrassment" of For-Profit Healthcare. The title says it.

"Our leaders must act to kick insurance companies to the curb and enact Medicare for All now," said one advocate.