Portland JWJ Health Care Committee

" The candidates who win on health care in 2026 and beyond won’t be the ones who make the most technically sophisticated case for single-payer, or those who declare that health care is a human right. They’ll be the ones who make insurance companies the villain, talk about the ludicrous medical debt carried by American workers as the economic emergency it is, frame universal coverage as increasing rather than decreasing personal freedom, and pitch the program as the return on a lifetime of hard work rather than a new government program."

Medicare for All Is an Electoral Winner Working-class voters already back Medicare for All. Framed like Social Security — as a benefit earned from work, not a handout — it can reach two-thirds support.