People holding posters, signs, and banners at a march including past president Will Cox who is holding a sign saying "Healthcare is a Human Right" and former corresponding secretary Jonathan Michels holding a banner that says "Students for Medicare f
Past president and current HCFANC board member Jonathan Kotch being arrested at a Moral March in Raleigh.
Past president and current HCFANC board member Jonathan Kotch with members of Duke's SnAHP chapter.
HCFANC President Howard Eisenson and Recording Secretary Connie Morrison with the NC White Coats at the Poor People Campaign's Moral March on Raleigh.
Attendees at HCFANC's 2023 Annual Meeting watching speaker Dr.Taylor Walker looking at a presentation slide that says "CIR Commitee of Interns and Residents".
HCFANC members speaking at a press conference on Human Rights Day to address the NC legislature's violation of Article 25 of the UN for its refusal to expand Medicaid to 500,000 North Carolinians.
A woman at a march holding a sign that says "Healthcare is a human right".

EVERYBODY IN, NOBODY OUT

The mission of Health Care for All NC is to educate and activate health care providers and the general public on behalf of a comprehensive, high quality, universal, single payer health care system that is equitably provided to all Americans and is paid for exclusively by a federal program accountable to the people.

Members of HCFANC have been fighting for universal healthcare since 1994, when a group of physicians formed the organization as North Carolina's first chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. While PNHP is primarily comprised of physicians, HCFANC's membership is a cross-section of doctors, healthcare workers and the general public.

For more than 100 years, Americans have struggled for a publicly-funded, high-quality healthcare system, but such transformative programs require a shift in the balance of power. It will take more than the obvious merits of a universal single-payer healthcare system to win Medicare for All.

Our work would not be possible without the struggle of Black, Indigenous and People of Color who protested against the South's medical apartheid system as well as progressive activists and workers who built coalitions in order to win the passage of programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

Like those victories, we can only win universal, single-payer healthcare if we work together. Join Health Care For All NC today.

WHY SUPPORT SINGLE PAYER?

  • Photo of Patti Reiser holding a sign that says "Healthcare for All!"

    Too many families have to choose between necessities like rent and food and health care and medications for their children. Our country can do better than this with a single payer, non-profit, universal coverage system — Medicare for all.

    Patti Reiser, RN, FNP (Retired), Pediatric Endocrinology, Durham County

  • Photo of Dr.Uma Tadepalli writing on a whiteboard.

    Our for-profit healthcare system is a rip off. Job-sponsored insurance means that in a pandemic where millions of people have lost their job, millions of people have lost their healthcare. Employers are increasingly offloading the inflated prices of our for-profit system onto workers through payroll deduction and out of pocket costs.

    Dr. Uma Tadepalli, MD, Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Durham County

  • Photo of Jonathan Michels holding a sign that says "AMA Get Out of the Way!"

    I support Medicare for All because l believe healthcare is a fundamental human right and should not be based on our race, gender, citizenship status, employment or ability to pay.

    Jonathan Michels, Radiologic technologist, Durham County

  • Photo of Maria Palmer smiling

    Without health insurance, people can get "kicked out" of waiting lists for life-saving organs. Yet they need those organs to continue to work and pay their insurance. Medicare for all would also prevent folks from going untreated for chronic diseases and needing transplants!

    Maria Palmer, Family Support Coordinator, Organ transplantation, Orange County

  • Photo of Laura Ucik smiling with a stethoscope around her neck.

    Because healthcare is a basic human right. Because my patients are dying due to healthcare costs. Because having a chronic illness in America means a lifetime of medical bankruptcy. Because no one should have to choose between rent and their medications. Because the current system is costing lives every minute of every day.

    Laura Ucik, Physician, Family Medicine, Vance County

  • Photo of Laura Helfman smiling

    I support Medicare for All because all human beings require access to healthcare in order to live a healthy and productive life. Whether you are low wealth or high, obtaining medical care and negotiating the vagarities of insurance rules and regulations is daunting. I am tired of seeing my patients in the Emergency Department unable to obtain the followup and services that I have recommended.

    Laura Helfman, MD, Emergency Medicine, Madison County

  • Photo of Megan Dunn smiling with a stethoscope around her neck.

    As a triage nurse, I know that Medicare for All is the only solution to our broken health care system. I am on the phone with parents as they decide whether or not they can afford an office visit for their children. I see needed care delayed due to the high cost of care, high private health insurance deductibles, and insurance coverage denials. Nurses know the that the only way to fix this system is truly guaranteed health care for all.

    Megan Dunn, RN, BSN, IBCLC, Mecklenburg County

  • Photo of Jessica Schorr Sax with a neutral expression.

    Medicare for All is the best way to achieve universal, equitable, high-quality health care while saving money for individuals, families, and the economy.

    Jessica Schorr Saxe, MD, Mecklenburg County

  • Photo of Elissa Brody wearing a cloth mask.

    NC Citizens have been going too long without care. Disease gets worse when individuals do not seek primary care. Emergency care costs more than primary care and raises healthcare costs for everyone. Dental Care should be included in an individuals care. It is embarrassing and disgraceful that the US has worse healthcare than 25 other developed countries.

    Elissa Brody, Nurse Educator in DPS Adult Corrections, Wake County

  • Image of lighthouse that is in the HCFANC logo

    In my 40 year career in Medicine, I cared for many hundreds of patients without adequate health insurance. They received excellent care in the hospital, but when they were discharged, adequate outpatient care was often unavailable. Many families were bankrupted by our dysfunctional healthcare "system." I witnessed a great many families in despair about their healthcare tragedies.

    Anthony Morgan, MD, Hospitalist, Durham County

  • Photo of Claudia Prose smiling in her white coat

    I am a practicing pediatrician, lucky to take care of children who get care regardless of their insurance status. I think everyone should be as cared for as the young patients in my institution. It worries me that when they age out of our practice, they may be at the mercy of the so-called “market”. It angers me to think of the money wasted in the private insurance bureaucracy of claims and denials, and on the huge profits insurance companies make.

    Claudia Prose, MD, MPH, Pediatrics, Guilford County

DONATE

Health Care For All NC believes that high-quality health care is a right of all people and should be provided equitably as a public service rather than bought and sold as a commodity. Your tax-deductible donation will help educate and activate physicians, health professionals, students and the public in support of real health care reform: Improved and Expanded Medicare for All. We accept no money from pharmaceutical companies, private insurers, hospitals or other for-profit entities.

Thank you for helping us achieve universal, single-payer health care!

UPCOMING EVENTS

Want to learn more about single-payer, connect with other advocates, and push for change? Check out these upcoming events! Reach out to us at info@healthcareforallnc.org to request a speaker or plan an event with us.