In September, NSP discussed “Independent Political Action –
The Way Forward for National Single Payer.” NSP activists were encouraged to take action to Implement Red Team Report Recommendations. 

In August, NSP Steering Committee member Dr. Ana Malinow discussed how “Value-less Payment Schemes Hand Medicare to Wall Street.”

In July NSP discussed “Why Saving the VA Matter to the Single Payer Movement.”  Guest speakers were Suzanne Gordon, a senior policy analyst at the Veteran Health Policy Institute and an award-winning journalist and author. And Bruce Carruthers is an Army Vietnam veteran and former adjunct instructor.

In June, NSP welcomed Steering Committee member and Reproductive Endocrinologist Dr. Judy Albert who presented “A Conversation About Single Payer and Reproductive Health Rights”

In Arpil, NSP leaders Kay Tillow and Dr. Claire Cohen discussed “Don’t Bust Up Medicare and Hand It to the States.”

The NSP April webinar featured renouned labor activist Sara Nelson.  Called “America’s most powerful flight attendant” by the NYT and tapped as a possible Secretary of Labor by the Biden administration, Sara has served as the International President of the Association of Flights Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO since 2014, and is currently serving her third four-year term. Sara Nelson discussed “Unions, Power to the People, and the Battle for Medicare for All.”

The March webinar featured Maureen Tkacik, a Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project, investigations editor at the American Prospect, and a journalist who has written extensively on corporate greed for The American Prospect, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and the New Republic. And James Kahn, a professor in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. Tkacik and Kahn discussed “Rural Hospitals Under Fire:
National Single Payer and Global Budgets Can Save Them.”

The February webinar, “Against All Odds: What the U.S. Can Learn from the Cuban Health Care System,” featured Secretary David Ramirez Alvarez, the former Cuban attaché to the U.S. General Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is currently Second Secretary in the Cuban Embassy, representing Cuba’s cultural and political forces sectors.

In January, NSP announced launch if its podcast series “The Real McCoy in Healthcare.”  The educational webinar disussed “McMedicare for All: What Privatization Means for the Single Payer Movement.”

In October, NSP denounced targeting of hospitals in the Gaza Strip and U.S. complicity in genocide.

In November, NSP investigated how Medicare Advantage has forced itself into retiree health plans amidst general confusion.  The educational webinar featured Marianne Pizzitola, President of the NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees.

In October, National Single Payer invited East Palestine activist Jessica Conard to discuss Section 1881A of the Affordable Care Act, a little-known clause with large ramifications, which provided Medicare to almost all residents in Libby, Montana, regardless of age.  

In September, NSP welcomed Linda Phenix, co-chair and co-founder of the Texas Task Force to Protect Medicare from Privatization. The September webinar, “Civil Rights, Medicare, the Desegregation of American Hospitals, and the Menace of ‘Value-Based’ Care,” described the little-known, yet extremely important connections between the Civil Rights Movement and the passage of Medicare, and how Medicare desegregated every American hospital in less than one year.

In August, NSP formally launched our, now regularly scheduled, educational sessions featuring a pediatrician, public health advocate, and nationally renowned activist, Dr. Margaret Flowers.  NSP and Dr. Flowers discussed “The Impact of National Single Payer Health Care on American Life.”

In our first edititon, NSP is introduced to the community.  We highlight our September 28th webinar, “Organizing in Rural Wisconsin: How the Citizens of Dunn County, WI Put National Single Payer on the Ballot”