We work with states all across the country to achieve one-payer health care.

The map below is a snapshot showing (in yellow) states with active movements or infrastructure for state-based one-payer or universal health care bills.

For information about each state, select a state from the list below.

The federal State-based Universal Health Care Act (SBUHCA), will help states to enact their own one-payer systems. Learn more about SBUHCA

List of States

If you find any errors or have information to add to the profiles, please contact the OPS Map Curator so we can update it. Contact us with the contact form below or at onepayerstatesinfo@gmail.com

Upcoming Events

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OPS 3rd Friday Meeting
Oct 18
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.

Outreach Work Group
Oct 22
Outreach Work Group

The Outreach Work Group fosters relationships and joint actions with other organizations which include health justice and health care justice in their mission. The 4th Tuesday of every month at 4pm PT (7pm ET).

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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.