Nurses for Single Payer

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.

Single Payer--Things to Know & Do 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.

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

I'm a nurse. If Congress cuts Medicaid and Social Security, my patients will die. So, what would happen without Medicaid? My patients will be forced to forgo lifesaving care, and they will die.

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

Portland city council calls on Providence leaders to return to talks with nurses union, end strike 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.

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RFK Jr: His 10 Most Insane Comments and Conspiracies Meet America’s next head of Health and Human Services. It’s scarier than you think.

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".

Daily Show for December 16, 2024 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...

ICYMI - This bears further sharing!

US Medalist's Experience of Free Healthcare in Olympic Village Bolsters Case for Medicare for All | Common Dreams "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."

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"Healthcare Workers leading the way!"

Healthcare Workers (still) Leading the Way - NW Labor Press Here in Oregon, we continue to see some of the most inspirational worker-led actions at healthcare institutions across the state.

The ‘Black Angels’ Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis 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.