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 Wednesday, July 31, 2013 ‘Medicare for All’ Would Cover Everyone, Save Billions in First Year: New Study Upgrading the nation’s Medicare program and expanding it to cover people of all ages would yield more than a half-trillion dollars in efficiency savings in its first year of operation, enough to pay for high-quality, comprehensive health benefits for all residents of the United States at a lower cost to most individuals, families and businesses. That’s the chief finding of a new fiscal study by Gerald Friedman, a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. There would even be money left over to help pay down the national debt, he said. Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, June 06, 2013 30 Million to Remain Uninsured Under Obamacare: New State-by-State Estimates at Health Affairs Blog A study released today on the Health Affairs blog finds that between 29.8 million and 31.0 million people will remain uninsured after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2016 and breaks down those figures by state. The research team from Harvard Medical School and the City University of New York School of Public Health projects that the demographic composition of today’s uninsured population will change little under Obamacare. Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, May 29, 2013 Immigrants Heavily Subsidize Medicare’s Trust Fund: Health Affairs Study Immigrants, particularly noncitizens, pay billions more into Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund than they withdraw in health benefits each year, according to researchers at Harvard Medical School and Hunter College School of Public Health. The study is being released today as a Web First by Health Affairs, and will also appear in the journal’s June issue. Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, April 25, 2013 Insured But Unable to Afford Health Care In an editorial responding to a new study on skimpy health insurance among low-income, insured Americans, two policy experts review extensive data showing that tens of millions of insured Americans have grossly inadequate coverage, and that the problem of underinsurance is growing. The editorial in the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM) was approved by the journal's editors for publication on today's date and will appear on its website next week. Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, April 18, 2013 Study Reveals Austerity’s Harmful Impact on Health in Greece In one of the most detailed studies of its kind, a team of Greek and U.S. researchers have vividly chronicled the harmful public health impacts of the economic austerity measures imposed on Greece’s population in the wake of the global economic crisis. Writing in today’s [Thursday, April 18] American Journal of Public Health, the researchers cite data showing the economic recession and subsequent austerity policies in Greece have led to a sharp deterioration of health services and health outcomes. Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, February 20, 2013 Setting the Record Straight on Medicare’s Overhead Costs: New Study The traditional Medicare program allocates only 1 percent of total spending to overhead compared with 6 percent when the privatized portion of Medicare, known as Medicare Advantage, is included, according to a study in the June 2013 issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, February 14, 2013 National Doctors Group Hails Reintroduction of Medicare-for-All Bill A national physicians group today hailed the reintroduction of a federal bill that would upgrade the Medicare program and swiftly expand it to cover the entire population. Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, October 12, 2012 Financial Incentives May Sap Motivation, Undermine Quality: Health Affairs Article A leading authority on behavioral economics has teamed up with two health policy experts in an article at the Health Affairs blog to argue that pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes in medicine may do more harm than good by “crowding out” altruism and other intrinsic motivations to do a good job. Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, October 10, 2012 Private Insurers Have Cost Medicare $282.6 Billion in Excess Payments Since 1985 In the first study of its kind, a group of health policy experts has determined the amount of money that Medicare has overpaid private insurance companies under the Medicare Advantage program and its predecessors over the past 27 years and come up with a startling figure: $282.6 billion in excess payments, most of them over the past eight years. That’s wasted money that should have been spent on improving patient care, shoring up Medicare’s trust fund or reducing the federal deficit, the researchers say. Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, September 12, 2012 Despite Slight Drop in Uninsured, Last Year’s Figure Points to 48,000 Preventable Deaths: Health Expert The Census Bureau’s official estimate that 48.6 million Americans lacked health insurance in 2011 means approximately 48,000 people died needlessly last year because they couldn’t get access to timely and appropriate care, a health policy expert said today. Read more |