Don McCanne, MD Bio:

Dr. Don McCanne is PNHP’s Senior Health Policy Fellow. He served as President of Physicians for a National Health Program in 2003-2004. Dr. McCanne has published a daily health policy “quote of the day” in support of single payer on-line for six years to wide acclaim in the health policy community. The focus of his work is “evidence-based” health policy and health care reform. Dr. McCanne has given hundreds of talks to national and local medical professional, civic, and faith groups, and debated proponents of “free-market” based health reforms and health savings accounts as well as advocates of individual and employer mandates. For three decades, Dr. McCanne allotted one-half of his practice hours as a family physician in San Clemente, California to indigent patients. He was cited by the San Clemente City Council as being “…outspoken, especially when it involves the elderly and underprivileged, because he believes that the ability to pay should not be the major criterion for receiving health care.” Dr. McCanne has elected to dedicate the remainder of his productive years to full-time activism on behalf of the cause of non-profit national health insurance. An archive of his daily postings is on-line on PNHP's website.

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