Organizations Supporting Single-Payer Healthcare

 
 

This is by no means an exhaustive list. Let us know if there are others you’d like us to add. Send an email to editor@ilsinglepayer.org.

For more informaiton on these organizations' support for single-payer healthcare, contact editor@ilsinglepayer.org.

Illinois labor groups that have passed resolutoins or are otherwise active in support of single-payer health care are listed here.

Other organizations working in Illinois for single-payer health care are listed here on our "Contact Us" page. 

Cities, counties and states that have endorsed HR 676 are listed here on the Unions for Single Payer website; labor groups here. PNHP posts a list of endorsing organizations here

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  • 311 IL - Support Addordable Health Care for All in the Land of Lincoln

  • Access Living

  • AFL-CIO

  • AFSCME

  • Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA)

  • Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)

  • American Federation of Government Employees

  • American Federation of Teachers

  • American Legion Post 1025, Thomson IL; article here.

  • American Medical Student Association

  • American Patients United

  • American Postal Workers Union

  • American Public Health Association

  • American Sustainable Business Council/Business Leaders Transforming Healthcare

  • Americans for Democratic Action

  • Article 25

  • Black Network in Children's Emotional Health (BNICEH)

  • Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division/International Brotherhood of Teamsters (BMWED/IBT)

  • Business Leaders Transforming Healthcare/American Sustainable Business Council

  • Carroll County [IL] Democrats

  • Center for Popular Democracy

  • Champaign County Health Care Consumers

  • Change Peoria

  • Chicago ADAPT

  • Chicago Jobs with Justice

  • Chicago Single Payer Action Network

  • Chicago Students for a National Health Program (C-SNaHP)

  • Citizen Action Illinois

  • Citizens for Midwifery

  • Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

  • Coalition of Labor Union Women

  • Code Pink

  • Color of Change

  • Communication Workers of America

  • Copernicus Healthcare

  • DeKalb Area Progressives

  • Democracy for America (2017)

  • Democratic Socialists of America

  • DeMoines Register

  • Drive for Universal Health Care (DUH); renamed Demand Universal Health Care

  • Econ 4

  • Fair Economy Illinois

  • Fox Valley Citizens for Peace and Justice

  • Gay and Lesbian Medical Association

  • Grassroots Collaborative

  • Grassroots Illinois Action

  • Gray Panthers

  • Gray Panthers Chicago

  • Green Party of the United States

  • Health Over Profit for Everyone (HOPE)

  • HOPE in the Midwest

  • Healthcare-NOW!

  • Illinois for All

  • Illinois Green Party

  • Illinois Media Progressives

  • Increase the Harvest, Inc.

  • Independent Movement of Paratansit Riders for Unity, Vehicles, Equality (IMPRUVE)

  • Independent Voters of Illinois/Independent Precinct Organization

  • Indivisible NW Illinois 17th District Rebels

  • International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees

  • International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

  • Islamic Medical Association

  • Jane Addams Senior Caucus

  • Justice Democrats

  • Justice Party

  • Kane County Revolution

  • Labor Beat

  • Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare

  • Labor Council for Latin American Advancement

  • Labor Fightback Network

  • Latino Medical Student Association (*Resolution on Advocacy for Single-Payer Health Insurance, adopted at the Annual Policy Summit, March 27, 2015)

  • Latinos for Healthcare Equity

  • Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care

  • Medicare for All - Northern Illinois

  • Move Illinois Policy

  • Move to Amend

  • Move to Better Health Care

  • NAACP

  • National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI)

  • National Education Association

  • National Farmers Union

  • National Health Care for the Homeless Council

  • National Medical Association

  • National Nurses United (NNU Midwest endorsement of HB942 here)

  • National Organization for Women

  • North Shore Women for Peace

  • Northside Action for Justice

  • Northern Illinois Jobs with Justice

  • Occupy Elgin

  • Occupy Naperville

  • Our Revolution

  • People's Action

  • The People's Agenda

  • People's Congress of Resistance

  • People's Health Movement

  • The People's Lobby

  • People's Policy Project

  • The People's Revolution

  • The People's Tribune

  • Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)

  • Physicians for a National Health Program Illinois

  • PNHP medical student chapters in Illinois: Loyola, Midwestern, Northwestern, Rush, University of Chicago, University of Illinois

  • Physicians for Social Responsibility

  • Pilsen Alliance

  • Poor Box Theater, Chicago

  • Poor People's Campaign

  • Popular Resistance

  • Presbyterian Church (USA)

  • Progressive Democrats of America

  • Progressive Democrats of America Illinois

  • Progressive Independent Party

  • Public Citizen

  • Puerto Rican College of Physicians and Surgeons

  • Radical Public Health

  • Residents for a National Health Program

  • Retirees for Single Payer Health Care

  • Right to Heal

  • Sacred Order of the Black Cat

  • Salt Lake Tribune

  • Service Employees International Union (2008, 2016)

  • Single Payer Action

  • Social Security Works

  • Socialist Alternative

  • Southern Illinois People for Progress

  • Springfield Area Disability Activists

  • Student Osteopathic Medical Association

  • Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP). As of July 2016, Loyola University, Midwestern Illinois University, Northwestern University, Rush Medical School, University of Chicago, and University of Illinois Chicago have chapters.

  • Unions for Single-Payer Health Care (To see Illinois labor groups, click here.)

  • United Auto Workers

  • United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Worlkers of America

  • United Steelworkers

  • Utility Workers Union of America

  • United Working Families

  • West Side Democracy for America [Chicago]

  • West Suburban Action Project (Proyecto de Accion de los Suburbios de Oeste (PASO))

  • West Suburban Democratic Socialists of America

  • Women's Economic Agenda Project

  • Women's March 2019 Agenda

Resolutions and endorsements The following bodies, among others, have passed resolutions or made endorsements in favor of a national single-payer bill.

  • Chicago City Council

  • US Conference of Mayors

  • On May 31, 2009, in the 96th Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois House adopted HR0233, sponsored by Representative Mary Flowers, urging Congress to enact HR 676. Full text here.

  • On September 11, 2017, the Thomson IL Village Board adopted a resolution in support of HR 676.