Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)

Second Largest Physicians Group in US Has a Prescription: It's Medicare for All

More than two thousand physicians published an open letter to the American public, prescribing single-payer Medicare for All, in a full-page ad in The New York Times that will run in the print edition on Tuesday, January 21, 2020. On Monday, in a separate but related move, the American College of Physicians (ACP), a national organization representing 159,000 internists, officially endorsed single-payer Medicare for All reform. The ACP is the largest medical specialty society and second-largest physician gro

So-Called 'Army Built to Fight Medicare for All,' Says Healthcare Expert, Really 'Just Hired Guns Hired by Corporate Stooges'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"We have to take this evil deadly seriously," another critic said of the for-profit healthcare industry's efforts to kill single-payer legislative proposals.

At AMA's Annual Meeting, Doctors and Nurses Demand Powerful Lobbying Group 'Get Out of the Way' In Fight for Medicare for All

Julia Conley, staff writer

"The AMA is violating one of its most important ethical principles: 'Do Not...

Demanding End to 'Rotten' Opposition to Medicare for All, Doctors and Nurses to March on American Medical Association's Annual Meeting

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"It's time for the AMA to join the majority of physicians who support improved...

Progressives Raise Alarm Over Lack of Single Payer Supporters Chosen to Testify at Historic Medicare for All Hearing

Warren Wins Applause for Addressing High Black Maternal Mortality Rates, But Experts Say Plan to Fix Crisis Needs Work

Private Health Insurance Stocks 'In Free Fall' as Medicare for All Gains Momentum

To Create System That Puts 'Patients Ahead of Profits,' Sanders Unveils Medicare for All Act of 2019

'Making Money Off Dysfunction': Bolstering Medicare for All Case, Survey Shows Americans Accrued $88 Billion in Healthcare Debt in 2018

'One of the Best Cases For Single Payer I've Ever Seen': Watch Dr. Adam Gaffney Take on Skeptics at Fox

Insurance Stocks Plunge as Medicare for All Unveiled With Major Party Support

'The Time for Medicare for All Has Come': Jayapal Unveils Visionary Bill to Remake US Healthcare System

As Industry Ramps Up Efforts to Kill Medicare for All, New Tool Shows 'Why We Desperately Need, and Can Absolutely Afford, #SinglePayer'

Despite Promises of ACA, Study Shows Two-Thirds of Personal Bankruptcies Still Caused by Illness and Medical Bills

Brown: Medicare for All Not 'Practical.' Progressives: 'Thank You. Next.'

As Harris Says 'Eliminate' For-Profit Insurance, Bloomberg Offers Fact-Free Medicare for All Fearmongering

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But Don't Get Sick

In honor of Veterans' Day, Physicians for a National Health Program cite appalling numbers from Harvard Medical School research: 1.4 million working-age veterans lacked health coverage last year, and about 2,266 died as a result - 14 times the number of deaths in Afghanistan last year, or six deaths a day. Single-payer insurance would change those numbers, they say; the current health reform bill will not. "Like other uninsured Americans, most uninsured vets are working people, too poor to...