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title: The Feminist Case For Single Payer
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# The Feminist Case For Single Payer

By Natalie Shure • Jacobin • December 8, 2017

> While Our Bodies, Ourselves is remembered for its role in the history of women’s health and culture, less attention is paid to its political context. In the 1970s, the small collective became one of the first feminist organizations to demand a single-payer health-care system: “Suffice it to say that capitalism is incapable of providing good health care, both curative and preventive, for all people,” one entry read.

  
Read the full story: [The Feminist Case For Single Payer](https://jacobinmag.com/2017/12/single-payer-feminism-medicare-for-all-health-women)[Read the full article ](http://jacobinmag.com/2017/12/single-payer-feminism-medicare-for-all-health-women)

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