Over 100 organizations are cosponsoring this event in 20 cities across the country. Actions are planned in Louisville KY, Pittsburgh PA, Kittaning PA, Houston TX, Barrington NJ, Arlington VA, Detroit MI, Charleston WV, Charlotte NC, Burlington NC, Greenville NC, Seattle WA, Spokane WA, Portland OR, Tillamook OR, Corvallis OR, Santa Barbara CA, San Francisco CA, San Diego CA, and New York City with more on the way.

Louisville Rally

12 Noon

Saturday, May 31, 2025

Mazzoli Federal Building, 600 Martin Luther King Jr. Pl. 40202. Join us!

Speakers: KY State AFL-CIO President, Dustin Reinstedler; Dr. Karen Krigger, Professor of Family and Geriatric Medicine; Hamza Jamal, UofL Medical Student

Socializing at 1:00 pm with pizza provided!

(The time for the rally has been changed to 12N to avoid conflict with the Social Security Rally.)

In Kentucky cosponsors include:

Kentucky Poor Peoples Campaign, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Kentucky State AFL-CIO, Greater Louisville Central Labor Council, Kentucky Unitarian Universalist Justice Action Network, Louisville Showing up for Racial Justice, Derby City Coalition of Labor Union Women, United Auto Workers Local 862, Laborers Local 576, Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Louisville Workers Brigade, Louisville Fellowship of Reconciliation, Kentucky Green Party Group, Kentuckiana Raging Grannies, League of Women Voters of Kentucky

Your organization can sign on as a cosponsor here

See the list of cosponsors and further details here

Call To Action May 31, 2025: Demand Health Not Profit!

We call on communities across the country to join in a National Day of Action on Saturday, May 31, 2025, to put National Single Payer Healthcare on the nation’s agenda. 

Our health care system is broken beyond repair. Insurance companies and for-profit middlemen create barriers to care and massive administrative waste. These result in unnecessary suffering and deaths. For over 60 years, piecemeal reforms have resulted in higher costs and the worst health outcomes among comparable nations.

We demand the recognition by our government that health care is a human right.

We demand the elimination of private health insurance and the banning of for-profit delivery of care.  

We demand the enactment of a publicly financed, national  single payer program that would provide comprehensive coverage to everyone.

We demand that health care delivery be transformed from profit-seeking ventures into services organized to serve the people of our country, a system in which all caregivers are freed from corporate control. 

The National Day of Action will bring people together locally and nationally from neighborhoods, unions, faith groups, businesses, and all types of civic organizations to join the demand to remove profit from health care. We must focus our collective anger towards corporate health insurers to bring real reform: put National Single Payer on the nation’s agenda!

Your organization can sign on as a cosponsor here.

Jill Harmer, front row left, has arranged for the Raging Grannies to perform at the rally.

Sign the petition to Put Single Payer on the Table!

Act to End the Direct Contracting Entities and ACO REACH that are privatizing Medicare.

• Petition to CMS

Contact us: nursenpo@aol.com, Facebook, kentuckians_for_single_payer, Single Payer Radio, @KY4singlepayer

Read the Physicians’ Proposal for a National Single Payer Program.  Sign on to it. Join National PNHP.

Slides from Drs. Steffie Woolhandler & David Himmelstein

Quote of the day by Don McCanne. Health Justice Monitor

Answers to questions on single payer.

HR 676, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All, a model single payer bill in the House from 2003 to 2017.

HR 3421, Improved Medicare for All, national single payer bill, currently in the House, which needs to be improved to ban and convert the for-profit hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis centers, etc.

Please support the work of Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care by making a donation on line here.  Or you can mail your check to KSPH, PO Box 17595, Louisville, KY 40217.  Annual dues are $5, but we welcome whatever you can give.

On Fri., March 21, 2025, Louisville rallied at the Mazzoli Building to demand protection of federal services and workers. The mood was intense–the wounds are deeply felt. Even the Pegasus seemed to cry out against the injustice!

A TSA worker spoke of the illegal withdrawal of their union rights. Others told of the damage to the veterans from the VA cuts. This fight is just beginning. Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare was there in solidarity.

On Sat., March 22, 2025, hundreds convened at the Local 862 UAW hall to condemn the threats to cut Medicaid, the federal/state program for health care for those with low incomes or disabilities. Over 1.5 million Kentuckians have no other coverage. The majority of recipients are working at jobs that pay too little and don’t provide health insurance.

Moms spoke of the fight to keep their challenged children covered when they get a tiny raise. Almost all of those in nursing homes depend on Medicaid!

The Flea Off Market is a community showcase of artists, craftspersons, collectors, entrepreneurs, farmers, food trucks, musicians, and anybody who just wants to have a pop up “yard sale” with us. On April 5^th the location will be  at 1101 E. River Rd., Louisville, Ky 40206 – Waterfront Park. Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare will have a Booth to promote  “Enhanced” Medicare for All that includes  everyone, from pre-natal to end of life. Come visit us from 11am-6pm. If you would like to volunteer, Register Here

On Wednesday, February 11, 2025, medical students at the University of Louisville met to organize a Chapter of the Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP), the student arm of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP).  PNHP is a single-issue organization with more than 25,000 members advocating a universal, comprehensive, single-payer national health program.

Hamza Jamal, a second year medical student, organized the meeting and led with a presentation on the purpose of SNaHP and its proud history of advocacy, both on the U of L campus and nationally. Kay Tillow, Chair of Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care (KSPH), spoke on the state of our healthcare outcomes and costs and the necessity to move to a national single payer system, free from profit. Harriette Seiler, Secretary of KSPH, told of the positive experience of her Canadian family with their single payer system.

Students asked probing questions centering on what they can do to accomplish the needed changes in health care. Dr. Anthony Martin, the group’s advisor, joined in the lively discussion on how to survive as a physician while advocating for systemic change.

To reach the student group, email Hamza Jamal (pictured in photo) at hamza.jamal@louisville.edu

Hamza Jamal has written an article examining health care administrative costs in the United States.  Access the article here.

Sicko is a 2007 American political documentary film by filmmaker Michael Moore. Investigating health care in the United States, the film focuses on the country’s health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry. Moore compares the for-profit non-universal U.S. system with the non-profit universal health care systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba. Watch it, free, here:

Ona Marshall and Drs. Ed Marshall and Alecia Fields, experts on reproductive rights in Kentucky, discuss the status of those rights on this episode of Single Payer Radio, hosted by Paul Hoppe and Drs. Mike Flynn and Eugene Shively.

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