about nsp

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!

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NSP STEERING COMMITTEE

Judy Albert, MD

Judy Albert, MD is a retired Ob/Gyn and Reproductive Endocrinologist who practiced in Pittsburgh for nearly 30 years. She has been a member of PNHP of Western PA, the Western PA Coalition for Single Payer Healthcare and served on the national board of PNHP. She is a member of the Steering Committee for National Single Payer.

Claire Cohen, MD

Claire Cohen, MD, an African American child and adolescent psychiatrist active in efforts to stop the school-to-prison pipeline in the Pittsburgh Public Schools, is a founding member of the Pittsburgh Green New Deal, on the advisory board of the Pittsburgh Black Workers Center, a member of the Medicare 4 All Committee of DSA, and a steering committee member of the Western PA Coalition for Single Payer Healthcare.

Ed Grystar

Ed Grystar has decades of experience organizing and negotiating labor contracts in the healthcare industry. Past President of the Butler County (PA) United Labor Council, AFL-CIO. Current chair of the Western Pennsylvania Coalition for Single Payer Healthcare.

Ana Malinow, MD

Ana Malinow, MD, featured on national and international media on health care reform and the stealth privatization of Medicare, spent three decades working as a pediatrician with immigrant, refugee, and underserved children in Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, and California before retiring as Clinical Professor of Pediatrics from the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.

Kay Tillow

Kay Tillow, chair of Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare and Coordinator of the All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care, worked in the Southern civil rights movements in the 60s, spent her early career organizing unions, and was responsible for organizing over 600 unions across the country to endorse H.R. 676, John Conyer’s Medicare for All Act.

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.