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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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
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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 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
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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 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
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)
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 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
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))
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.
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.