On Saturday, June 7 2025, My wife Phyllis and I, plus fellow group member from Richmond, Nancy Crewe, traveled to Whitesburg for the annual Seedtime Festival on The Cumberland (plateau). sponsored by nationally recognized Appalshop, the community film workshop. We were there to spread the word for the need to enact ^enhancedMedicare for All.

Our group actively seeks venues to do these outreach events, and welcomes invitations from communities and other interested groups to come do a presentation.

While there was a smaller turnout than we expected, we spoke with a number of people and all were very supportive of Medicare for All. We were delighted to speak with a medical student from Duke University who was not aware of SNaHP (Students for a National Health Program) and promised she would investigate if there was a chapter at Duke and if there wasn’t, would be interested in starting one. Also stopping by our booth was a student that attends Yale University. She was very interested hearing about our movement, asking quite a few questions, and vowing to “spread the word” when she returns to her home in Brooklyn, NYC and back on campus in the fall.

As we packed to leave, Tucker Leighty-Phillips, Publicity Manager for Appalshop, thanked us for coming and invited us back next year for their 40th Anniversary Seedtime Festival.

Our organization works hard to get these corporate vultures out of our Healthcare. Please join Us, get involved, talk to others, write to your congressional representatives. The Peoples Will is the only way to make it happen.

In a recent Single Payer Radio program, Kay Tillow, Harriette Seiler, Hamza Jamal, Evan Hawthorn, and Paul Hoppe of Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare discuss the poor ranking of our healthcare in this country based on a Commonwealth Fund report comparing 10 industrialized nations.

Goal: Compare health system performance in 10 countries, including the United States, to glean insights for U.S. improvement.

Methods: Analysis of 70 health system performance measures in five areas: access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, equity, and health outcomes.

Key Findings: The top three countries are Australia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, although differences in overall performance between most countries are relatively small. The only clear outlier is the U.S., where health system performance is dramatically lower.

Conclusion: The U.S. continues to be in a class by itself in the underperformance of its health care sector. While the other nine countries differ in the details of their systems and in their performance on domains, unlike the U.S., they all have found a way to meet their residents’ most basic health care needs, including universal coverage.