The Chicago Single-Payer Action Network (CSPAN) is a grassroots organization of activists fighting to make health care a human right. We are a diverse group of people from different political persuasions, but we share the belief that our current health care system is broken and that fundamental—not incremental—change is needed.
Gender, racial, and class disparities are endemic in the health care system.
We believe the only way to end this suffering and unnecessary death is by abolishing the private insurance industry. These corporations put profits before patients and are responsible for the health care crisis.
CSPAN proudly supports John Conyers’s bill, The United States National Health Care Act (H.R. 676). This bill eliminates the insurance companies and replaces them with a single-payer system where the government pays all medical bills: no co-pays, no deductibles, and no denial of care.
H.R. 676 makes health care a human right that can never be taken away.
CSPAN believes that protest and educating people are the way to win single-payer. We have organized pickets and demonstrations in front of insurance company buildings and the Democratic National Committee offices.
Successful educational events include a panel discussion with the American Medical Students Association (AMSA) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a meeting on gender and racial disparities with Physicians For a National Health Program (PNHP) at Harold Washington College.
Join us today in the struggle to win health care as a human right.
EVERYBODY IN, NOBODY OUT!