additional resources

One of the best ways we are finding to educate people about Medicare for All is in brief spontaneous conversations, like when you’re standing in line at a movie, concert, the grocery store, or in an elevator. If you’re wearing your Medicare for All button, people will ask you about it. Be prepared to give good, concise answers by using one of these “elevator speeches” that we’ve prepared. If you have suggestions for additional 30-second pitches, please let us know!

Print this out and take it with you to your next Doctor's appointment!

The author of HR 1976, Seattle Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal,  clarifies the confusion that has arisen in the Democratic debate about Medicare for All. Read her article to get back on the straight track! Click to open.

Representative Jayapal concisely explains just about everything one needs to know about it, and why it’s the best solution to our healthcare crisis. From PBS Newshour, read or listen to "Why these House Democrats think Medicare for All is the best path for U.S. health care"  Click to open.

Harvard physician and faculty member Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, explains clearly how we can easily pay for Medicare for All, how most people don’t actually like their current plans, and how Medicare for All will be less disruptive than our current system. As many others have realized, we can’t afford anything else. Click to open.

The co-founders of PNHP give a concise overview of Medicare for All in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association (2019). Click to open.

Here is a series of short articles by our Chair Dr. Bohmfalk in the Aspen Times (2018):

1. Is there a moral basis for universal health care? Click to open.

2. Where do we stand now with health care? Click to open.

3. Follow the money to health care’s undue administrative costs. Click to open.

4. Having ‘skin in game’ isn't the smartest way to run health care. Click to open.

5. Single-payer health care is likely less disruptive & better for the economy.  Click to open.

6. There are no other good options in health care reform. Click to open.

7. What can I do to make Medicare for All happen? Click for Action steps.

The author of HR 1976, Seattle Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal,  clarifies the confusion that has arisen in the Democratic debate about Medicare for All. Read her article to get back on the straight track! Click to open.

Representative Jayapal concisely explains just about everything one needs to know about it, and why it’s the best solution to our healthcare crisis. From PBS Newshour, read or listen to "Why these House Democrats think Medicare for All is the best path for U.S. health care"  Click to open.

Harvard physician and faculty member Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, explains clearly how we can easily pay for Medicare for All, how most people don’t actually like their current plans, and how Medicare for All will be less disruptive than our current system. As many others have realized, we can’t afford anything else. Click to open.

The co-founders of PNHP give a concise overview of Medicare for All in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association (2019). Click to open.

Here is a series of short articles by our Chair Dr. Bohmfalk in the Aspen Times (2018):

1. Is there a moral basis for universal health care? Click to open.

2. Where do we stand now with health care? Click to open.

3. Follow the money to health care’s undue administrative costs. Click to open.

4. Having ‘skin in game’ isn't the smartest way to run health care. Click to open.

5. Single-payer health care is likely less disruptive & better for the economy.  Click to open.

6. There are no other good options in health care reform. Click to open.

7. What can I do to make Medicare for All happen? Click for Action steps.

A staunch Conservative says, "There are many great Republican reasons to look differently at affordable universal healthcare coverage." (2023) Click to open.

A Libertarian denies that free markets work in health care (2018)  Click to open. 

A prominent Conservative predicts that American conservatives will soon embrace single-payer healthcare (2017)  Click to open. 

A Conservative writes, "Putting the government in charge of health care would restore it to its proper place in our lives.” (2017) Click to open. 

A Republican doctor and politician agrees with the late Conservative commentator and physician Charles Krauthammer that single payer is "the most conservative way forward for our health care system." (2012) Click to open. 

This is the website of FixIt, Canadian Healthcare Myths, and other healthcare documentaries, produced by Pennsylvania manufacturer Richard Master: https://fixithealthcare.com 

Business Leaders for Health Care Transformation (BLHCT) is an organization of business leaders supporting Medicare for All -https://www.blhct.org

A Canadian who now lives here writes "American health care is expensive, unequal and inhumane." (2018) Click to open. 

What a French Doctor’s Office Taught Me About Health Care: I moved to Europe because I couldn’t afford to be a cancer patient in America. Click to open. 

Malcolm Gladwell explains how broader health care makes us all stronger. (2005) Click to open. 

Diminished hearing may be a significant risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (2020) Click to open. 

Preventive dental care actually lowers costs in the long run. (2017) Click to open.  

Oral health cannot properly be considered apart from the health of the rest of the body. (2018) Click to open.  

Researchers at Yale showed that the Senate Medicare for All bill would save over $450 billion and 68,000 lives each year. (2020) Click to open.

Cost analyses of 22 single-payer plans showed that ALL will lower healthcare costs. (2020) Click to open.

In this video, U. Mass. economists Gerald Friedman and Robert Pollin point out why other studies show higher costs, and emphasize how we can easily pay for Medicare for All, saving 10-13% for businesses and households. (2020) Click to open. 

A deep-dive analysis of the Sanders' Senate plan, S.1129, by PERI, the Political Economy Research Institute, showing how his plan will save money for both families and businesses (2018) Click to open.

Medical students respond to an article by their school’s CEO in which he questioned Medicare For All (2018) Click to open.