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Health Care for All

Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is a national grassroots campaign of more than 850 organizations in 46 states representing 30 million people dedicated to winning quality, affordable health care we all can count on in 2009. HCAN's organization and principles are supported by President Obama, Vice President Biden, and more than 190 Members of Congress. It supports a public option to private health insurance. HealthcareForAmericaNow.org

Health Care Now! supports HR-676, the single-payer bill introduced by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. HCN's goal is to demonstrate the overwhelming support for single-payer as a popular movement and to make sure single-payer is given fair standing with other reform options. HR-676 is endorsed by 20 medical organizations, six faith groups, 45 municipalities and 465 local, state and national unions. Healthcare-Now.org

Physicians for a National Health Program is a single issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health program. PNHP has more than 16,000 members and chapters across the United States. PNHP.org

Michigan Universal Health Care Access Network (MichUHCAN) is a state-wide network that promotes comprehensive health care for all through education, strategy development and advocacy. MichUHCAN.com

Faith-Based Groups

Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) calls upon our religious values in order to educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community in the U.S. on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers. IWJ.org

Soujourners' mission is to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world. SOJO.net

Research

Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit Washington D.C. think tank, that was created in 1986 to broaden the discussion about economic policy to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers. EPI.org

Dollars & Sense publishes economic news and analysis, reports on economic justice activism, primers on economic topics, and critiques of the mainstream media's coverage of the economy. DollarsAndSense.org

The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) was established in 1999 to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives. CEPR.net