Physicians for a National Health Program
Physicians for a National Health Program is a single issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health program. PNHP has more than 21,000 members and chapters across the United States.
Releases by this organization
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Newswire article Tuesday, January 05, 2021 Health Affairs Study Finds Previous Projections of Costs Under Single-Payer/Medicare for All Ignore Evidence That the Finite Supply of Beds, Nurses, and Physicians Will Prevent a Surge in Health Care Use and Costs With the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating, job and health insurance losses accumulating, and a Democratic administration soon to be in charge in Washington, debate over health care reform looks set to return to the national stage. Previous projections of the costs of universal coverage, much cited by... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, August 12, 2020 Another Physicians Group Endorses Medicare for All Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) today applauded the Society of General Internal Medicine’s (SGIM) endorsement of Medicare-for-All reform. SGIM is an internal medical association representing more than 3,300 of the world’s leading academic general internists, including educators,... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, July 21, 2020 81 Million Americans Live in Homes That Lack Enough Space and Bathrooms to Follow COVID-19 Quarantine and Isolation Recommendations An article published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine reports that 25 million dwellings that house 81 million Americans lack adequate space or plumbing to allow compliance with recommendations that a person who may have COVID-19 maintain physical separation from others in their household... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, May 21, 2020 Doctors’ Group Demands the American Hospital Association Leave Anti-Single Payer Dark-Money Organization Physicians for a National Health Program ( PNHP ), a nonprofit organization of 23,000 doctors who support Medicare for All reform, has called on the American Hospital Association (AHA) to divest its membership in the Partnership for America's Health Care Future (PFAHCF), a dark-money lobbying group... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, May 15, 2020 Physicians’ group responds to Emergency Health Care Guarantee Act Statement from Dr. Adam Gaffney, president of Physicians for a National Health Program, in response to the Emergency Health Care Guarantee Act : "Each week, millions of Americans are losing their jobs — and their health coverage — with no end in sight. To minimize suffering during the COVID-19... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, May 01, 2020 Physicians’ Group Welcomes Emergency Medicare Expansion Proposal During Crisis The COVID-19 pandemic and the deteriorating economy pose a grave risk to the health of the nation. The Medicare Crisis Program Act , introduced in Congress today by Representatives Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), and Joseph Kennedy (D-Mass.), would expand coverage to many of the uninsured, while... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Study: 3.7 Million Frontline Health Workers Have Medical Problems That Raise Their Risk of Dying From COVID-19 More than a quarter (26.6%) of America’s nearly 14 million patient-contact health personnel are at risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19 because of age or chronic conditions, a new study found. Researchers also reported high rates of uninsurance and poverty among frontline health workers,... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, April 28, 2020 COVID-19 and Mass Incarceration: Action Needed Now to Stem the Epidemic In prisons and jails around the country, COVID-19 infections and deaths are occurring at lightning speed among both inmates and the staff who enter and leave the prison each day. In a commentary published today in JAMA Internal Medicine, physicians from Harvard Medical School and City University of... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, April 07, 2020 New Study: 1,553,000 Workers Became Uninsured in Past Two Weeks; 5.7 Million More Likely to Lose Coverage by June 30 In a new study published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers estimate that layoffs triggered by the COVID-19 epidemic have already caused more than 1.5 million American workers to lose health insurance, with 5.7 million more likely to become uninsured by June 30, for a total of 7... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, January 20, 2020 Doctors Prescribe Medicare-for-All: Single Payer Reform Endorsed by America's Largest Medical Specialty Society and Recommended in Open Letter from Thousands of Physicians Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) today welcomed the American College of Physicians’ (ACP) endorsement of single-payer Medicare for All. The ACP, a national organization of 159,000 internists, is the largest medical specialty society and second-largest physician group in the U.S... Read more |