Our Mission

One Payer States fights to win high-quality, cost-effective health care for all. Working together, we build powerful state, regional, and national solutions.

Our Vision: We envision a national healthcare system in which everyone has equal access to high-quality comprehensive health care, including mental health, vision, dental, and in-home and residential care.

Our Values: Integrity, Life, Equity, Transparency, Learning, Love, Peace, Trust, Optimism, Freedom, Dignity, Duty, Justice (for all), Opportunity, General Welfare/Public Good, Nonviolence, Reason, Inclusion.

Our Principles:

  1. Healthcare is a fundamental need for the well-being of individuals, democratic citizens, families, and the general welfare (Article 1, Section 8, U.S. Constitution).

  2. One Payer States promotes the establishment of a publicly-funded, privately- and publicly-delivered healthcare system for all. That system must be inclusive, efficient, not-for-profit, politically sustainable, high-quality and comprehensive, in terms of care and delivery.

Upcoming Events

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OPS 3rd Friday Meeting
Dec 20
OPS 3rd Friday Meeting

Come to our meeting on the third Friday of the month at 9am PST (12pm EST) to learn, engage and activate! Join us as we discuss the work of One Payer States.

One Payer States Radio LIVE - To Your Health!
Dec 26
One Payer States Radio LIVE - To Your Health!

We are thrilled to announce that One Payer States now has a monthly live radio show! In collaboration with GhostClaw Productions Radio, we will broadcast live 6-8pm ET (3-5pm PT) on the 4th Thursday of every month.

You can catch the show on One Payer States social media or the GCPR Radio website.

Second Tuesday Speaker Series - Office Hours
Jan 14
Second Tuesday Speaker Series - Office Hours

Come to our meeting on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 5pm PST (8pm EST) to hear from leading experts in their fields and how to apply their knowledge to win the fight for universal one-payer health care.

Blog

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Universal Health Care In the Senate!
Universal Health Care In the Senate!

Big news in the fight for Single-Payer / Expanded and Improved Medicare for All!


Sen. Ed Markey (D, MA) has agreed to introduce the Senate companion bill to Rep. Khanna's (D, CA) H.R. 6270 "State-Based Universal Health Care Act" (SBUHCA) as soon as next week. We need to recruit our Senators in the next few days, with a cutoff deadline of Tuesday 2 April, 5pm ET, for original (pre-publication) co-sponsoring Senators to sign on. 

Looking Backward, Looking Forward: 2023, 2024, Before and Beyond
Looking Backward, Looking Forward: 2023, 2024, Before and Beyond

One Payer States President, Chuck Pennacchio, PhD

31 December 2023

In 1888, Edward Bellamy's forward-looking novel, Looking Backward 2000-1887, made a sensational impact in an American society reeling from the ravages of the Gilded Age's barbarous Capitalism and Social Darwinism. Bellamy's Boston of the futuristic year 2000 - as conveyed to us by time-traveler Julian West - gives us a utopian vision of universal justice, shared wealth, religious harmony, and global peace. Looking Backward touched millions of Americans and non-Americans, fostered hundreds of Bellamy Societies (most after his 1898 death from tuberculosis), helped launch two magazines, a political party, and a generation of innovative social thinkers such as Jane Addams and John Dewey…

One Payer States - In It To Win It - #GivingTuesday
One Payer States - In It To Win It - #GivingTuesday

This #GivingTuesday please give generously to support our strategic vision and work that is grounded in a deep understanding of U.S. history, politics, media, messaging, coalition-building, inside-outside coordination, horizontal and vertical organizing, constitutional state-national reform dynamics -- and, most importantly, lived experience.