NATIONAL SINGLE PAYER
BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE
ABOUT US
National Single Payer is a national, grassroots organization that organizes locally in the struggle for national single payer health care.
We are united by the common principles that health care is a human right, must be free from corporate profit, and must be achieved through national legislation.
We are a 501(c)(4) under the fiscal sponsorship of Americans for Democratic Action. Your donations keep our work alive!
WHAT IS NATIONAL SINGLE PAYER?
The Rights to Life and Health. How financing affects the right to health care in the U.S. Submitted to the United Nations. Universal Periodic Review of the United States of America. Fourth Cycle, 50th Session of the UPR, Human Rights Council, November 2025 by The National Lawyers Guild, Connecticut Citizen Action Group, Hawai’i Institute for Human Rights, National Center for Law and Economic Justice, National Conference of Black Lawyers, National Single Payer, Poor Peoples Campaign, People’s Action Institute, and Rights and Democracy Institute
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NSP PRINCIPLES
Principle #1
We believe health care is a human right, and nothing less than the enactment of a national, not-for-profit, single payer program can make that right a reality in the United States.
Principle #2
We believe coverage must be inclusive of all needed medical care with everybody in and nobody out and that all people deserve the highest level of quality health care.
Principle #3
We believe the health care crisis calls for urgency in building a broad, powerful, bold, and nonpartisan movement that can make possible the enactment of national single payer legislation.
Principle #4
We maintain hope based on our nation’s history of building dynamic movements to abolish slavery, expand voting rights, establish unions, and take on corporate power.
Principle #5
We believe that neither a state by state nor an incrementalist strategy is an effective approach to winning national single payer.
Principle #6
We believe that private equity, venture capital, insurance companies, and all profit-making entities have no place in health care as the prioritization of profits over people is the cause of high costs, delays, denial of care, poorer quality of care, and premature death.
Principle #7
We believe the conversion of for-profit hospitals and medical care facilities into non-profit entities is critical to serve the needs of people and communities.
Principle #8
We believe that the public funding must be progressive, shifting the burden from workers and those with modest incomes to the wealthy.
Principle #9
We believe that inequities in health care based on race, ethnicity, religion, immigration status, class, gender (including pregnancy and gender identity), sexual preference, detention or incarceration, disability, age, and geographic location must be abolished to assure social justice in health care.
Principle #10
We believe physicians and all health care practitioners must be able to practice free from corporate control and that patients have the right to choose their physician and other health care providers.
Principle #11
We believe that a just transition with jobs, education, and income provided for those workers whose work is eliminated by the establishment of a single payer system is imperative.
Principle #12
We welcome the discussion of a national health service and the possibility that such a plan can be placed on the nation’s agenda.
NSP NEWSLETTERS
April 2025
NSP’s National Day Of Action
5.31.25
March 2025
National Day of Action May 31, 2025:
Actions Across the Country
February 2025
A presentation by the NSP Cuba Delegation:
The Cuban Health Care System Prevails Against All Odds
December-January
National Single Payer Presents:
Looking Back and Looking Ahead—
Harnessing Outrage Over Profit and Channeling it to Put National Single Payer on the Table
November 2024
Mirror, Mirror: Twenty Years of Failing System Report Cards, and Fifteen Years after the Affordable Care Act—Why are we still here?
October 2024
Financial Risks of State-based Health Reform