Watch the NSP webinar, “Against All Odds:  What the US Can Learn from the Cuban Health Care System,” featuring Secretary David Ramirez Alvarez, former Cuban attaché to the U.S. General Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and current Second Secretary in the Cuban Embassy. The “odds” refer to the US policy to isolate Cuba from trade and vital human necessities with a 60 year-old economic, financial and commercial blockade that has created critical shortages of food, fuel, medicines and medical equipment.  And yet…Cuba has created and supported a unique model of public healthcare that features locally-based preventive care. This healthcare system is the result of a commitment to healthcare as a human right as enshrined in the Cuban constitution.   Health outcomes have improved, notably infant and maternal mortality rates are lower than in the United States.

National Single Payer co-sponsored a shadow report for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United States by the UN Human Rights Council, which will took place in November 2025.

Entitled “The Rights to Life and Health: How financing affects the right to health care in the U.S.”, the shadow report details how the United States’ private health care system leads to ongoing violations of the human right to health across the country.

READ FULL REPORT HERE

Kay Tillow, Nancy Crew, and Paul Hoppe, members of Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care discuss the importance of getting a Medicare For All bill passed in Congress with special guest Randy Raley, who is a candidate for Congress from the 15th district in Southern Illinois. Mr. Raley is an advocate for Medicare for all and believes that health care is a human right. Due to the current administration’s budget cuts to healthcare plus the tariffs that have been imposed by the administration, the large farming district that Mr. Raley would represent is being hammered on two fronts. Farmers are being priced completely out of the healthcare market and at risk of even losing their farms.

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National Single Payer, a national, grassroots organization that believes health care is a human right, must be free from profit, and will be achieved through national legislation, opposes the use of tax-payer dollars to fund a military campaign targeting Venezuela and firmly stands against all unilateral coercive measures that cause hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, mostly children’s, every year in 40 countries. We call on the nation to demand our government use our resources to support life and wellbeing at home and abroad.

NSP recently signed on to the following letter to members of the United States Congress and Executive Branch:

As health workers, we are writing to inform you of new research which demonstrates that a policy tool used extensively by the US government is causing half a million deaths around the world every year, including the deaths of over a quarter million children under the age of 5. The practice of imposing unilateral economic sanctions, such as those the US currently has in place against some 40 countries, must stop in light of this conclusive evidence.

READ THE FULL LETTER HERE

National Single Payer condemns the unilateral, immoral, and criminal military attacks carried out by the United States government against three nuclear facilities on the sovereign nation of Iran. This unprovoked attack on Iran is a flagrant violation of international law, the Charter of the United Nations, and the U.S. Constitution and undermines the fundamental pillars of peaceful coexistence among nations. 

READ FULL STATEMENT HERE

Highlighting the Save Our Rural Hospitals campaign

NSP Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of Medicare