Labor Campaign for Single Payer

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Taking the Labor Movement to the forefront in the fight for single-payer healthcare, because it's time to take healthcare off the bargaining table! Subscribe to our free newsletter: laborforsinglepayer.org

Bar graph showing the average per-person health care expenditure by country, with US expenses surpassing those of more than 50 other countries by a wide margin (SOURCE: OECD Health Statistics 2025; WHO Global Health Expenditure Database.)
Screenshot of a news headline. Photo is of smiling retired firefighter Ken Jones. Above the photo, the headline reads "Retired San Francisco firefighter dies from lung cancer after Blue Shield denies treatment claims"
Comic by Jen Sorensen illustrating the absurdity of not having #MedicareForAll.
Image of a man in a hospital gown, lying in a hospital bed, beside his son. Both are making a defiant fist gesture. Inlaid in the image is a photo of a meme made famous in the past of the son as a baby, making a defiant/triumphant fist gesture. Caption reads: "Due to his Internet Popularity 'Success Kid' made enough money to fund his own Dad's kidney transplant."
Tweet by @AzPetrich: "I saw a comment saying that the U.S. is the only country in the World Cup without universal healthcare. And I was like nahhh no way that's accurate. 20 seconds on the world wide web later, THE UNITED STATES IS THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD CUP WITHOUT UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE."
Chart showing the rankings of 15 countries based on the quality of their health care systems. The US is dead last @ #15.
post by @MorePerfectUS that reads: "Fifty-one Americans in the health care industry were included on Forbes' annual billionaire list. Americans are paying more than ever for healthcare, and 51 people have become billionaires because of it."
poster featuring a stethoscope. Text reads: IT'S TIME TO REFORM OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM 325+ ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORT MEDICARE FOR ALL
Lionel Hutz from the Simpsons asks "can you imagine a world without HMOs?" and then himself images a utopia with a smiling sun shining down on a rainbow and all the people of the world holding hands.
Tweet from @amelia_tweetz: "One of the biggest scams ever sold to ordinary people was convincing them that universal healthcare is 'impossible' in the richest country in the world. 80+ countries manage to take care of their citizens without bankrupting them over an ambulance ride. Meanwhile people here avoid hospitals because they're scared of the bill more than the illness itself. And somehow we were taught to accept that like it's normal."
Infographic showing that a worker earning $50,000 would have $12,000 more in take-home pay if their health insurance costs were covered by #MedicareForAll instead of by an employer-provided or self-funding health insurance plan.
Photo of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, defiantly holding her fist up at a podium, with the Mexican flag in the background. Caption reads: "MEXICO STARTS UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE THIS MONTH, GIVING ALL 120 MILLION CITIZENS ACCESS TO EVERY PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTION."
Post by @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social: "If someone walked into a hospital and just started pulling the plug on people, reactions would be severe and justified. When it happens from behind a desk, as a result of made up rules and regulations from companies that stand in between us and our care, it should be no different."
Tweet by @brittlestar.com: "Almost everyone who touts the benefit of private healthcare is hoping to profit from private healthcare."
A blonde-haired toddler wearing a pink hoodie, tan track pants and white sneakers stands in front of a sign, appearing to be reading it. The sign says SINGLE PAYER - IMPROVED MEDICARE FOR ALL!
(source: Pew Research Center https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/12/10/most-americans-say-government-has- a-responsibility-to-ensure-health-care-coverage/)
The "two buttons" meme. PANEL ONE: a gloved hand hestitates before pressing one of two buttons. The first button reads "Spend $ you don't have to get medical treatment." The 2nd button reads: "Ignore the problem until it's so bad you wind up in the ER." 2nd panel: a man with a worried expression, wiping sweat from his brow. He is labeled "AMERICANS"
The Simpsons "I sleep in a racing car" two-frame meme. FRAME ONE: Kirk Van Houten is pointing to a hospital and telling Homer Simpson "I have shorter waiting times, do you?" FRAME TWO: Homer, surrounding by the flags of countries with single payer health care, replies "I live 4 years longer on average and my health care is paid for by a single payer medicare system."
A March 2026 Gallup poll showing that the availability & affordability of health care was a problem that 61% of Americans worried about a great deal, making it the #1 issue concerning Americans.
Post from @binkybrain: "My wife has cancer, it took 5 months to wipe out 20 years of life savings and that was with insurance. The experience has turned me into a hateful, bitter person. We did everything we were told. We went to college, got degrees, avoided credit card debt, spent wisely, saved a nice chunk of money in savings accounts and retirement accounts and minded our business. The USA healthcare system took all of our savings and retirement and forced us to refinance our house so that we lost 15 years of equity. This is a country I'm supposed to be proud of? I hate this system and anyone that defends it."
Photo of a Fox News headline, reading "Trump says US can't fund Medicare, Medicaid and day care because 'we're fighting wars'" Beneath is a photo of Donald Trump Our caption: "Would you rather have a government that fully funds #MedicareForAll or the war in Iran? Let us know in the comments!"
Poster-style artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales, with the top of the image reading “The Labor Movement! The Folks that Brought You…” and then a crowd of workers holding signs for Unemployment Insurance, The Weekend, Equal Pay for Equal Work, Farm Labor Rights, Workers’ Comp, Health Benefits, Pension Benefits, OSHA, Grievance Procedures, Workplace Power, Sick Leave, Parental Leave, Civil Rights, Child Labor Laws, Social Security, Domestic Partner Benefits, Paid Vacations, Living Wage Laws, and Overtime Pay. Underneath the illustrations of the crowd is the quote “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will,” by Frederick Douglass
The Big Betrayal and How We Fight Forward graphic with pictures of Rep. Jayapal and Sen. Sanders and a school bus with a “Hop Aboard!” sign, with the details of the event