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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)

Battle Covid-19, Not Medicare for All: Doctors Demand Hospital Industry Stop Funding Dark Money Lobby Group

On Frontlines Against Covid-19, Healthcare 'Heroes' Across US at Risk From Underlying Illness, Poverty, and No Insurance

Julia Conley, staff writer

" Health care workers don't need lip service. They need raises, health benefits, and paid sick leave."

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Exposing 'Folly of Tying Health Coverage to Jobs,' New Study Estimates 7.3 Million More Uninsured in US by June

Jon Queally, staff writer

Medical workers take in patients at a special coronavirus intake area at Maimonides Medical Center on April 07, 2020 in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Hospitals in New York City, which has been especially hard hit by the coronavirus, are facing shortages of beds, ventilators and protective equipment for medical staff. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Employer-based health insurance during the current coronavirus outbreak, said...

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As Insurance Executives Waive Copays for Coronavirus, This Reminder: Medicare for All Would Eliminate All Copays Forever

Jon Queally, staff writer

U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence participate in a coronavirus briefing with health insurers in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, on March 10, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

"Almost 1 in 3 Americans—more than 100 million people—have deficient health...

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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

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

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

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

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

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

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

An EMT student stabilizes a patient.

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

Dr. Adam Gaffney

'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

"Healthcare is a human right. We will need every single person in the country to help us, to stand with us, to organize, and to fight for this," Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) said in a statement. (Image: Rep. Pramila Jayapal/Facebook)

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

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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...

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Physicians’ Group Welcomes Emergency Medicare Expansion Proposal During Crisis

Physicians for a National Health Program

COVID-19 and Mass Incarceration: Action Needed Now to Stem the Epidemic

Physicians for a National Health Program

New Study: 1,553,000 Workers Became Uninsured in Past Two Weeks; 5.7 Million More Likely to Lose Coverage by June 30

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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...

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Health Care Paperwork Cost U.S. $812 Billion in 2017, Four Times More Per Capita Than in Canada

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Doctors to Tell American Medical Association: Support Medicare For All or “Get Out of the Way”

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Dr. Sanjeev K. Sriram

Why Does the American Medical Association Have Such a Feeble Response to Our Health Care Crisis?

Diane Archer

Why Medicare for Some Is the Wrong Idea

Jeffrey D. Sachs

The Medicare for All Bill Is a Winner

Michael Winship

An "Exciting But Dangerous Moment" for Medicare for All

Russell Mokhiber

Single Payer Gold Standard HR 676 Rest in Peace

Dr. Sanjeev K. Sriram

Dr. King Would Want Us to Fight for Medicare For All

Dana Brown

At Last, a Good First Step Toward Public Pharmaceuticals

Peter Certo

Midterm Takeaway: We Need a Lot More Democracy

Paul Buchheit

The Evidence Pours In: Poverty Getting Much Worse in America

Dr. Carol Paris

Mr. Trump, If You Love Medicare, Improve It and Expand It to All