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Our Mission: Single-Payer National Health Insurance
Greg Silver, MD
The U.S. spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care, $8,160 per capita. Yet our system performs poorly in comparison and still leaves 50.7 million without health coverage and millions more inadequately covered.
This is because private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar. Streamlining payment through a single nonprofit payer would save more than $400 billion per year, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans.
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The Physicians' Proposal
Marcia Angell, MD
Past Editor
New England
Journal of Medicine
We endorse a fundamental change in America's health care - the creation of a comprehensive National Health Insurance (NHI) Program. Such a program - which in essence would be an expanded and improved version of Medicare - would cover every American for all necessary medical care.
Click here to read the entire proposal (pdf)
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'Hijacked' by Dr. John Geyman
Is health care "reform" 2010 better than nothing? Dr. Geyman warns of soaring costs, no price controls, and more Americans going without necessary health care. This is our future in the aftermath of Health Care "Reform" 2010, guided by a failing industry bailed out by new government subsidies. This well-documented book charts a path to that end. Hijacked: The Road to Single Payer in the Aftermath of Stolen Health Care Reform is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand how our health care system got this way and what we can do about it.
Join us for PNHP's 2011 Annual Meeting on Saturday, October 29, in Washington, D.C., at the Gallaudet University Kellogg Conference Hotel. We will host a Leadership Training for a limited number of participants in advance of the meeting on the afternoon of Friday, October 28.
Vermont health law spurs fresh interest in single-payer reform: doctors group
As governor signs a 'universal health care' bill, a national physicians group says the Vermont developments show that many Americans want to go beyond the new federal health law to more fundamental reform.
» Click here to read PNHP's statement
PNHP & Firedoglake Petition:
Path to Universal Health Care: Ask HHS Secretary Sebelius to Allow Vermont's Reform
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Health bill leaves 23 million uninsured
As much as we would like to join the celebration of the passage of the health bill, in good conscience we cannot. We take no comfort in seeing aspirin dispensed for the treatment of cancer.
Instead of eliminating the root of the problem - the profit-driven, private health insurance industry - this costly new legislation will enrich and further entrench these firms. The bill would require millions of Americans to buy private insurers' defective products, and turn over to them vast amounts of public money.
The hype surrounding the new health bill is belied by the facts ...