Update on Single Payer from Dr. Margaret Flowers
January 17, 2011 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
An interview with Dr. Margaret Flowers from OpEdNews.com by Joan Brunwasser – My guest is Dr. Margaret Flowers, congressional fellow of Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP]. Welcome back...
Recording of Discussion with Drs. Himmelstein and Woolhandler
December 14, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Healthcare-NOW! Updates
If you missed last night’s discussion about health reform with Physicians for a National Health Program co-founders Drs. David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, you can listen to it here. Audio...
Healthcare-NOW! Talks with Drs. Himmelstein and Woolhandler
December 8, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Action Alerts, Healthcare-NOW! Updates
Join Healthcare-NOW! members and supporters for a special evening of discussion with the founders of the leading national single-payer advocacy group, Physicians for a National Health Program, Drs. Steffie...
Will the Wyden/Brown state waiver enable single payer?
December 7, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
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By Don McCanne MD for PNHP – The initial reaction to S. 3958, The Empowering States to Innovate Act, sponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), is that the bill will enable...
Massachusetts doctors snub state’s health reform as model for country, pick single-payer system instead
October 26, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
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BOSTON – For the first time the Massachusetts Medical Society has asked doctors what they think about health reform in its annual “Physician Workforce Survey” of 1,000 practicing physicians in the...
The Midterm Elections and Medicare For All
October 18, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
By Dr. Quentin Young – As we approach Nov. 2, it’s fair to say that in many ways the distortion of political discourse in our country has never been worse. Extreme right-wing personalities...
Doctor’s survey: Single-payer health care system favored
October 12, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
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By Deborah Sederberg for the News Dispatch – MICHIGAN CITY — It was a small sample, but the response was overwhelmingly positive. In early September, The News-Dispatch published a story about...
What if everyone had Medicare?
September 29, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
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By Henry Abrons – The Census Bureau released its annual report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage in the United States earlier this month, and it’s no surprise to learn that...
Single-Payer is Inevitable
August 12, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
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Progressives and Conservatives Agree By Rob Stone, MD – “The new health care legislation is a step toward elimination, by slow strangulation, of private health insurance and establishment of government...
Rx on Medicare’s Birthday: Expand it to All
July 28, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
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By Dr. Quentin Young of PNHP – Medicare, one of our nation’s most cherished social programs, turns 45 on Friday. I was in active medical practice when, on July 30, 1965, Medicare was signed...




