Organizations Supporting Single-Payer Healthcare

Groups that endorsed the July 24, 2021 Chicago March for Medicare for All: Fight for 15 Chicago, PDA Illinois and Central Illinois PDA, Chicago People's COVID 19 Response Network, Medicare for All Northern Illinois, Schaumburg Area Progressives, Black Women Organizing for Power (BWOP).  PNHP Illinois, 40th United, Alliance for Community Services, United Northwest Side (UNS), Helping Communities Help Themselves, 33rd Ward Working Families, Our Revolution Illinois and Chicago, Northside Action for Justice, Move to Amend, Chicago Teachers Union, ISPC, Chicago Activist Coalition for Justice, 25th Ward IPO, American Council to Advance Medicare for All, PDA, Far South Chicago Coalition, ?, Illinois Gteen Party, AMAN (?), ? Chicago Afro-Socialists and Socialists of Color Caucus, Independent Progressive Alliance, Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, Socialist Alternative Chicago, Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP), Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Access Living, Southern Illinois People for Progress, Movement for a People's Party/Illinois People's Party, 14th District State Rrepresentative Kelly Cassidy, 40th Ward Alderman Andre Vasquez, 1st Ward Alderman Daniel LaSpata, Faith in Place, 33rd Ward Alderman Rossana Rodriguez, DuPage County NAACP, 35th Ward Alderman Carlos Rosa, 7th District State Senator Mike Simmons, 25th Ward Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez, 1st District County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, 20th Ward Alderman Jeanette Taylor.

This is by no means an exhaustive list. Let us know if there are others you’d like us to add. Send an email to editor@ilsinglepayer.org.

For more informaiton on these organizations' support for single-payer healthcare, contact editor@ilsinglepayer.org.

Illinois labor groups that have passed resolutoins or are otherwise active in support of single-payer health care are listed here.

Other organizations working in Illinois for single-payer health care are listed here on our "Contact Us" page. 

Cities, counties and states that have endorsed HR 676 are listed here on the Unions for Single Payer website; labor groups here. PNHP posts a list of endorsing organizations here.

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• 311 IL - Support Addordable Health Care for All in the Land of Lincoln
• Access Living
• AFL-CIO
• AFSCME
• Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA)
• Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)
• American Federation of Government Employees
• American Federation of Teachers
• American Legion Post 1025, Thomson IL; article here. 
• American Medical Student Association
• American Patients United
• American Postal Workers Union
• American Public Health Association
• American Sustainable Business Council/Business Leaders Transforming Healthcare 
• Americans for Democratic Action
• Article 25
• Black Network in Children's Emotional Health (BNICEH)
• Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division/International Brotherhood of Teamsters (BMWED/IBT)
• Business Leaders Transforming Healthcare/American Sustainable Business Council 
• Carroll County [IL] Democrats
• Center for Popular Democracy
• Champaign County Health Care Consumers
• Change Peoria
• Chicago ADAPT
• Chicago Jobs with Justice
• Chicago Single Payer Action Network
• Chicago Students for a National Health Program (C-SNaHP)
• Citizen Action Illinois
• Citizens for Midwifery
• Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
• Coalition of Labor Union Women
• Code Pink
• Color of Change
• Communication Workers of America
• Copernicus Healthcare
• DeKalb Area Progressives
• Democracy for America (2017)
• Democratic Socialists of America
• DeMoines Register
• Drive for Universal Health Care (DUH); renamed Demand Universal Health Care
• Econ 4
• Fair Economy Illinois
• Fox Valley Citizens for Peace and Justice
• Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
• Grassroots Collaborative
• Grassroots Illinois Action
• Gray Panthers
• Gray Panthers Chicago
• Green Party of the United States
• Health Over Profit for Everyone (HOPE)
• HOPE in the Midwest
• Healthcare-NOW!
• Illinois for All
• Illinois Green Party
• Illinois Media Progressives
• Increase the Harvest, Inc.
• Independent Movement of Paratansit Riders for Unity, Vehicles, Equality (IMPRUVE)
• Independent Voters of Illinois/Independent Precinct Organization
• Indivisible NW Illinois 17th District Rebels
• International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees
• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
• Islamic Medical Association
• Jane Addams Senior Caucus
• Justice Democrats
• Justice Party
• Kane County Revolution
• Labor Beat
• Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare
• Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
• Labor Fightback Network
• Latino Medical Student Association (Resolution on Advocacy for Single-Payer Health Insurance, adopted at the Annual Policy Summit, March 27, 2015)
• Latinos for Healthcare Equity 
• Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care
• Medicare for All - Northern Illinois
• Move Illinois Policy
• Move to Amend
• Move to Better Health Care
• NAACP
• National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI)
• National Education Association
• National Farmers Union
• National Health Care for the Homeless Council
• National Medical Association
• National Nurses United (NNU Midwest endorsement of HB942 here) 
• National Organization for Women
• North Shore Women for Peace
• Northside Action for Justice
• Northern Illinois Jobs with Justice
• Occupy Elgin
• Occupy Naperville
• Our Revolution
• People's Action
• The People's Agenda
• People's Congress of Resistance
• People's Health Movement
• The People's Lobby
• People's Policy Project
• The People's Revolution
• The People's Tribune
• Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
• Physicians for a National Health Program Illinois
• PNHP medical student chapters in Illinois: Loyola, Midwestern, Northwestern, Rush, University of Chicago, University of Illinois 
• Physicians for Social Responsibility
• Pilsen Alliance
• Poor Box Theater, Chicago
• Poor People's Campaign
• Popular Resistance
• Presbyterian Church (USA)
• Progressive Democrats of America
• Progressive Democrats of America Illinois
• Progressive Independent Party
• Public Citizen
• Puerto Rican College of Physicians and Surgeons
• Radical Public Health
• Railroad Workers United
• Residents for a National Health Program
• Retirees for Single Payer Health Care
• Right to Heal
• Right to Recovery Coalition
• Sacred Order of the Black Cat
• Salt Lake Tribune
• Service Employees International Union (2008, 2016)
• Single Payer Action
• Social Security Works
• Socialist Alternative
• Southern Illinois People for Progress
• Springfield Area Disability Activists
• Student Osteopathic Medical Association
• Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP). As of July 2016, Loyola University, Midwestern Illinois University, Northwestern University, Rush Medical School, University of Chicago, and University of Illinois Chicago have chapters.
• Unions for Single-Payer Health Care (To see Illinois labor groups, click here.)
• United Auto Workers
• United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Worlkers of America
• United Neighbors of the 35th Ward (Chicago)
• United Steelworkers
• United We Dream
• Utility Workers Union of America
• United Working Families
• West Side Democracy for America [Chicago]
• West Suburban Action Project (Proyecto de Accion de los Suburbios de Oeste (PASO))
• West Suburban Democratic Socialists of America
• Women's Economic Agenda Project
• Women's March 2019 Agenda

Resolutions and endorsements The following bodies, among others, have passed resolutions or made endorsements in favor of a national single-payer bill.

• Chicago City Council
• US Conference of Mayors
• On May 31, 2009, in the 96th Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois House adopted HR0233, sponsored by Representative Mary Flowers, urging Congress to enact HR 676. Full text here. 
• On September 11, 2017, the Thomson IL Village Board adopted a resolution in support of HR 676. 
• In the Nov. 6, 2018 General Gubernatorial Election, Berwyn Township approved the following referendum (search for Berwyn, scroll to bottom) 84.29% to 15.71% (article here): "Shall our elected officials take steps to institute a national improved medicare for all health care system, which would be publicly financed but privately delivered; one that covers everyone in the U.S., with comprehensive, high quality care, including free choice of providers and no health care bills?"
• On June 27, 2019, the Cook County Board of Commissioners passed Resolution 19-3838 in support of HR 1384. Article here and Board meeting details here.