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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SBUHCA Planning Meeting
Nov 21
SBUHCA Planning Meeting

Planning committee for the State-Based Universal Health Care Act (SBUHCA). Development of outreach plans, coordination between different organizations, and recruiting lawmakers.

Policy Work Group
Nov 22
Policy Work Group

The Policy Work Group develops, clarifies, and communicates optimal policies for single-payer proposals, to be shared with OPS Advocates, partners, and legislators. 4th Fridays: 9-10 a.m. PT (12-1 p.m. ET).

SBUHCA Planning Meeting
Nov 28
SBUHCA Planning Meeting

Planning committee for the State-Based Universal Health Care Act (SBUHCA). Development of outreach plans, coordination between different organizations, and recruiting lawmakers.

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.