'Now Is the Time': Nationwide Medicare for All Rallies to Take Place April 8

Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and several other organizations are co-organizing a day of action for single payer healthcare on April 8, to meet lawmakers returning to their home districts for a two-week recess.

Activists are seizing on the GOP’s healthcare bill defeat to galvanize momentum for a single payer plan, also known as “Medicare for All,” which would provide coverage for every American.

Participants in the day of action will ask their representatives to support HR 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, which would replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or Obamacare with a streamlined plan that researchers estimate will save about $500 billion annually, PNHP said.

“Republican attempts to strip millions of Americans of their health insurance have backfired,” said PNHP president Dr. Carol Paris. “With the swift defeat of the GOP bill, a grassroots movement toward a universal, single-payer health program is growing. Now is the time.”