In San Francisco, over 1,000 protesters rallied outside a health insurance industry convention Thursday to demand the creation of a single-payer healthcare system. The demonstration targeted America’s Health Insurance Plans, an industry group. Other protests calling for single-payer were held across the country. Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader addressed a rally in New York.

Ralph Nader: “How many die? The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences estimates that 18,000 Americans die every year because they can’t afford health insurance. Now, nobody dies in Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, England because they can’t afford health insurance, because they all have health insurance.”