Green Party Steering Committee Endorses National Single Payer Declaration

The Steering Committee of the Green Party of the United States has endorsed a declaration calling for a publicly financed national single-payer healthcare program. The party has signed on to a campaign being organized by National Single Payer, a healthcare advocacy group.

In an announcement Monday, the Green Party said its Steering Committee endorsed the campaign on May 22 and that the declaration was later signed on behalf of the national party on May 25. As the endorsement came from the Steering Committee rather than the party’s National Committee, no corresponding proposal details appear on the party’s public committee vote tracker.

The document, which National Single Payer calls the “Declaration of Independence from the Medical-Industrial Complex,” is part of a campaign launched last month by the organization to help drum up support for single-payer legislation in every state.

“On this 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we declare it is time for the people to rise up, organize, take control of the health care system, and run it in the interest of the public instead of in the interest of profit,” the document reads. “It’s time for comprehensive, universal, national Medicare for All, free from profit!”

Among its demands, the declaration calls on the government to recognize healthcare as a human right, eliminate private health insurance, ban for-profit delivery of care, and enact a publicly financed national single-payer program covering everyone “from cradle to grave.” It specifically calls for passage of H.R. 3069, the Medicare for All Act introduced in April 2025 and sponsored by Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington.

The Green Party is one of several dozen organizations listed by National Single Payer as endorsing the effort and, as of publication, appears to be the only national political party listed among them. National Single Payer is also asking supporting organizations to mobilize their members to add their names individually. It says it plans to eventually send the collected declarations to elected officials and candidates running for office.

The organization is also planning a virtual National Town Hall on October 14 at 8:00p ET, where it says signers, elected officials, and candidates will meet to discuss the initiative and ways to push for passage of Medicare for All legislation.