Add your name: Single-payer health care for America

Medicare for All isn't just some nice idea. It's an absolute necessity.

Pamela, Every day that passes in America is another day we pay premiums, co-pays, and medical debt. Every day families go bankrupt from medical debt and people refuse the care they need because it's too expensive. And every day during a pandemic that has killed more than 500,000 Americans, one thing is pretty clear: Health care in America cannot go on as it is today. That's why Be A Hero — founded in 2017 by activist Ady Barkan — is on a mission to pass guaranteed universal single-payer health care in the United States through any available path. Because, Pamela, single-payer health care isn't just some nice idea. It's an absolute necessity. If you agree, will you please add your name and commit to Be A Hero's fight for guaranteed universal single-payer health care in America? Yes, I Support Single-Payer Health Care! Pamela, we know no one single-payer health care bill is guaranteed to pass into law. That's why we fight for every opportunity we have, large or small, to get guaranteed universal single-payer coverage to as many people as we can — nationally, through Medicare for All, or in pieces state-by-state. Here's what we're working on: Medicare for All: Partnering with National Nurses United, we are starting an aggressive organizing campaign to push Sen. Bernie Sanders' and Rep. Pramilla Jayapal's bill for passage in all 50 states Statewide Single-Payer: In addition to national Medicare for All, we are supporting state legislatures that have the opportunity to pass single-payer at the state level — for example, the Campaign for New York Health Care State Public Options: We need to increase competition to weaken the insurance companies' power, and state-based public options provide that route. Washington State is the first state to enact a public option, and we're supporting efforts in Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, Oregon and elsewhere Lowering the Medicare Eligibility Age to 55: Medicare could be expanded to include all Americans over 55 today, Medicare for all children next, and eventually Medicare for All. We're starting a national advocacy campaign to pressure Congress into lowering Medicare eligibility Look, every single-payer bill in every legislature, every Congressional hearing, every county or city council meeting where we live is an opportunity to push America closer to guaranteed universal single-payer health care for everyone. That's why Be A Hero is building a broad coalition of online supporters who support guaranteed universal single-payer health care. The more folks we can rely on, the stronger our collective struggle for single-payer health care will be. Can you please add your name and commit to Be A Hero's fight for guaranteed universal single-payer health care in America? Let's show exactly how strong support for health care as a human right is. Yes, I Support Single-Payer Health Care! In solidarity, Be A Hero Team Paid for by Hero Action Fund.   Sent via ActionNetwork.org. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Progress America, please click here.