Single-Payer is Inevitable

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

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... 

After the Reform: Aiming High for Health Justice

By Margaret Flowers, M.D. for Tikkun Magazine – As we sit here on the other side of the recent health reform process, we have an opportunity for reflection. There were many times during the past... 

Patients protest doctor’s dismissal

By Kevin Kelley for Westlife – About 50 protesters demonstrated in front of St. John Medical Center Sunday afternoon to protest the termination of Dr. George Randt’s contract with Cuyahoga Physicians... 

Action Alert: Save Primary Care at St. John’s

Dr. George Randt and his colleague are board-certified internists who have had a contractual relationship with St. John Medical Center covering some 2,500 patients for several years. These two doctors... 

Action Alert: Expect Better from PBS

Recently, we announced Frontline’s new program, “Obama’s Deal,” which included a segment that featured single-payer advocates arrested in the Senate Finance Committee protesting... 

No Time to ‘Wait and See’ on Health Law

By Dr. Quentin Young – Building the Single-Payer Movement Having just gone through a grueling, frequently raucous debate on health reform, capped by the narrowest of votes to pass the Obama administration’s... 

Where We Are Now on Health Reform

By Dr. Quentin Young – With the passage of the Democrats’ health bill, Congress and President Obama have created a new (and not so new) legislative framework for health care finance in the... 

Single Payer Legislation vs. Reconciliation Bill

Physicians for a National Health Program recently released a comparison of single-payer healthcare and the bill that the House just passed. You can download the one-page handout here.  Read More →

A false promise of reform

Pro-single-payer doctors: Health bill leaves 23 million uninsured The following statement was released today by leaders of Physicians for a National Health Program, www.pnhp.org. Their signatures appear... 

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