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30 million to remain uninsured under Obamacare: new state-by-state estimates at Health Affairs blog

Posted on Thursday, June 6, 2013
Immigrants heavily subsidize Medicare’s Trust Fund: Health Affairs study

Posted on Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Private insurers' Medicare Advantage plans cost Medicare an extra $34.1 billion in 2012

Posted on Monday, May 13, 2013
Insured but unable to afford health care

Posted on Thursday, April 25, 2013
1 million hours of psychiatrist time wasted yearly on phone approvals for hospitalization

Posted on Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Study reveals austerity’s harmful impact on health in Greece

Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2013
Obama administration intervenes to give $71.5 billion to overpaid, for-profit Medicare Advantage plans

Posted on Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Setting the record straight on Medicare’s overhead costs

Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Doctors group hails reintroduction of Medicare-for-all bill

Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013
Canada’s health costs for seniors rising slowly, points way to Medicare solvency: Archives of Internal Medicine article

Posted on Monday, October 29, 2012
Financial incentives may sap motivation, undermine quality: Health Affairs article

Posted on Friday, October 12, 2012
Despite slight drop in uninsured, last year’s figure points to 48,000 preventable deaths: health expert

Posted on Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Performance pay for physicians may backfire: BMJ editorial

Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2012
‘Health law upheld, but health needs still unmet’: national doctors group

Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Physicians challenge WellPoint on disclosure of political spending

Posted on Monday, May 14, 2012
Health law, constitutional or no, fails to remedy ailment: doctors group

Posted on Monday, March 26, 2012
More than 2,400 doctors, nurses and health advocates denounce Institute of Medicine’s health coverage recommendations

Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2011
Mass. health reform’s impact augurs poorly for federal health law: new report

Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Uninsured patients in Massachusetts still predominantly the working poor, despite state’s health reform

Posted on Monday, September 19, 2011
Number of uninsured climbs to highest figure since passage of Medicare, Medicaid

Posted on Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Most medical schools offer students poor coverage for mental health and substance abuse treatment, imperiling student and patient care: Harvard study

Posted on Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Even privately insured have hard time getting psychiatric care in Mass.: Harvard study

Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2011
Single-payer doctors available to speak on budget talks, Medicare and Medicaid

Posted on Friday, July 15, 2011
‘Medicare for All’ supporters to protest outside health insurers’ convention Thursday

Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Vermont health law spurs fresh interest in single-payer reform: doctors group

Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Rise of for-profit hospice industry raises troubling questions, new study says

Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Doctors group greets single-payer health bill in Senate

Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Vermont health bill mislabeled 'single payer': doctors group

Posted on Thursday, April 7, 2011
Med students to rally at Vermont Statehouse for single-payer health system Saturday

Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011
More than 200 doctors contemplate moving to Vermont if it adopts single-payer health system

Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Med students to rally at Vermont Statehouse for single-payer health system on Saturday, March 26

Posted on Monday, March 21, 2011
Massachusetts reform hasn't stopped medical bankruptcies: Harvard study

Posted on Tuesday, March 8, 2011
'Wisconsin battle crucial for health and democracy': doctors group

Posted on Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Doctors’ group hails reintroduction of Medicare-for-all bill

Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Vermont single-payer proposals a 'major step in right direction': doctors group

Posted on Friday, January 21, 2011
‘Don’t repeal health law – go beyond it to single-payer Medicare for all’: doctors’ group

Posted on Friday, January 7, 2011
Deficit panel's Rx is wrong medicine: doctors group

Posted on Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Medicare-for-all doctor to speak at Chicago’s ‘Rally to Restore Sanity’

Posted on Friday, October 29, 2010
Massachusetts doctors snub state’s health reform as model for country, pick single-payer system instead

Posted on Friday, October 22, 2010
Doctors at Oct. 2 march: 'We need single payer'

Posted on Friday, October 1, 2010
'Don't undermine Medicare,' panel to tell lawmakers Sept. 23

Posted on Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Number of uninsured skyrockets 4.3 million to record 50.7 million in 2009

Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2010
Blacks with muscular dystrophy die 10-12 years younger than whites: new study

Posted on Monday, September 13, 2010
Doctors hard to find for patients in Massachusetts' first for-profit health plan: NEJM article

Posted on Thursday, August 5, 2010
League of Women Voters calls for 'Medicare for all'

Posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Health, life insurers hold $1.88 billion in fast-food stocks: AJPH article

Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010
Uninsured get poor care for migraine: Harvard study

Posted on Monday, April 12, 2010
Pro-single-payer doctors: Health bill leaves 23 million uninsured

Posted on Monday, March 22, 2010
Doctors group: Obama plan leaves millions uninsured, boosts private insurers

Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Grassroots Activists Hold ‘Sidewalk Health Summit,’ Call for Medicare for All

Posted on Monday, February 22, 2010
Medicare-or-All supporters in Denver to rally outside Obama events Thursday

Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2010
Medicare-for-all doctors arrested outside Obama-GOP meeting

Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010
'There is a better health plan, Mr. President'

Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010
Obama should seize moment to push for Medicare for All, doctors group says

Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010
As probation ends for 'Baucus 8,' group vows to press for single-payer health reform

Posted on Friday, January 8, 2010
Pro-single-payer physicians call for defeat of Senate health bill

Posted on Tuesday, December 22, 2009
‘Medicare buy-in’ is really a subsidy to private insurers: Harvard professor

Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2009
Sanders offers Medicare-for-All amendment in Senate

Posted on Thursday, December 3, 2009
Single-payer health advocate tells Congress: 'Start from scratch'

Posted on Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Projections of savings from health IT are baseless, Harvard researchers say

Posted on Friday, November 20, 2009
Massachusetts physicians say reform in their state is no model for the nation

Posted on Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance

Posted on Tuesday, November 10, 2009
150 activists arrested coast-to-coast for Medicare for All

Posted on Thursday, November 5, 2009
Illness often undiscovered and undertreated among the uninsured

Posted on Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Senate Finance bill is no solution to health care crisis

Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Pro-single-payer doctors seek place at Monday meeting with Obama

Posted on Monday, October 5, 2009
Single-payer advocate joins doctors' meeting at White House

Posted on Monday, October 5, 2009
Harvard study finds nearly 45,000 excess deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage

Posted on Thursday, September 17, 2009
Uninsured figures show mandate-based health reforms don't work

Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2009
Pro-single-payer doctors available to comment on Obama speech

Posted on Wednesday, September 9, 2009
New Harvard study reveals that taxing job-based health benefits would hit working families hardest

Posted on Thursday, August 20, 2009
Nonprofit nursing homes provide better care, major study finds

Posted on Wednesday, August 19, 2009
New poll shows Canadians overwhelmingly support public health care

Posted on Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Single-payer doctors and RNs volunteer at Remote Area Medical in L.A.

Posted on Tuesday, August 11, 2009
House vote on single payer will be historic first, doctors group says

Posted on Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Obama's health care reform policy is the wrong prescription, say president's former physician and public health groups

Posted on Thursday, July 30, 2009
Advocates Call on Governor Paterson to Highlight Savings from Single Payer Health Care for All -- Projected to Save $20 Billion annually by 2019

Posted on Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Media advisory: Doctor to tell House Judiciary panel about rising tide of medical bankruptcy

Posted on Monday, July 27, 2009
Doctors' group backs single-payer amendment to House health care bill

Posted on Friday, July 17, 2009
Physicians to tell House panels: single payer is only true health reform

Posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Single-payer advocate speaks to Blue Dogs on health reform

Posted on Friday, June 19, 2009
Illness, medical bills linked to nearly two-thirds of bankruptcies: Harvard study

Posted on Thursday, June 4, 2009
Health, life insurers hold billions in tobacco stocks: NEJM article

Posted on Wednesday, June 3, 2009
New Report Casts Exclusion of Single Payer Option as a Question of Democracy and Human Rights

Posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Doctors, nurses to demonstrate for single-payer health system outside Senate Finance Committee hearing

Posted on Monday, May 11, 2009
Doctors protest exclusion of single-payer at Senate Finance Committee

Posted on Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Cost control, universal care impossible without single-payer health system: Harvard physician

Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009
Media Advisory: Single-payer supporters to rally at April 6 health forum in Los Angeles

Posted on Friday, April 3, 2009
Media Advisory: Single-payer supporters to rally at March 31 health forum in Greensboro

Posted on Thursday, March 26, 2009
Press Release: Single-payer health reform bill introduced in Senate

Posted on Thursday, March 26, 2009
Single-payer supporters to rally at March 23 health forum in Des Moines, Iowa

Posted on Thursday, March 19, 2009
Protest set for New England Obama health care forum on March 17

Posted on Thursday, March 12, 2009
Urgent message to single payer supporters Join us for Obama regional governor's health care summit in Vermont to Insist on Single Payer

Posted on Tuesday, March 10, 2009
PR: Single-payer health reform supporters to rally at March 12 White House-sponsored forum in Dearborn, Mich.

Posted on Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Single-payer advocates win seats at White House health summit, remarks by Dr. Oliver Fein

Posted on Thursday, March 5, 2009
Doctors urge greater caution, skepticism in prescribing drugs

Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Massachusetts is no model for national health care reform

Posted on Friday, February 20, 2009
New health care alliance pushes 'Medicare for All' reform

Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009
U.S. prisoners sicker than believed and have poor access to care

Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2009
PNHP letter to Secretary-designate Tom Daschle, Health and Human Services

Posted on Tuesday, December 9, 2008
PNHP letter to Sen. Baucus, Senate Finance Committee

Posted on Wednesday, November 19, 2008
The uninsured often donate organs, but rarely receive them

Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008
Doctors, citing mandate for change, call on Obama, Congress to 'do the right thing' on health reform

Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Beware 'siren song' of privatizers, U.S. doctor tells Canadians

Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Doctors to candidates: enact single-payer health reform

Posted on Monday, October 6, 2008
Small book on 'single payer' packs surprising wallop

Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Hundreds Gather in Albany to Launch Statewide Single Payer Health Care Coalition

Posted on Monday, September 15, 2008
Slight drop in uninsured masks deepening problem, doctors say

Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Copy Massachusetts' health reform? Not so fast, researchers say

Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008
City of Austin backs 'single-payer' health plan

Posted on Thursday, August 7, 2008
Millions of chronically ill, lacking insurance, can't get needed care

Posted on Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Pro-single-payer Doctors' Group Announces New Blog

Posted on Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Statement of Dr. Quentin Young on "Health Care for America Now"

Posted on Tuesday, July 8, 2008
U.S. Conference of Mayors Backs Single-Payer National Health Insurance

Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Doctors to Join National Protests Against Private Health Insurers

Posted on Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Democrats in Colorado, New Hampshire back single-payer health plan

Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Labor, Faith, Seniors, Consumer Groups Rally at New York State Capitol in Support of Single Payer Universal Health Care

Posted on Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Most doctors support national health insurance, new study shows

Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008
Clinton vs. Obama on Health Care -- Interviews Available

Posted on Friday, February 8, 2008
California's health reform failed because mandates are fundamentally flawed as a model for reform

Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008
Harvard Study Finds Dangerous Increase in Emergency Department Waits Nationwide

Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Doctors Give Massachusetts Health Reform a Failing Grade - Poor Early Outcomes Raise Red Flags, Only Private Insurers Profit

Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008
Most Free Drug Samples go to the Wealthy and Insured

Posted on Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Nation's Largest Medical Specialty Group Endorses Single Payer Health Reform

Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Markets Have Failed in U.S. Health Care

Posted on Friday, November 30, 2007
1.8 Million Veterans Lack Health Coverage

Posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2007
PNHP Experts who can speak on individual mandates for health insurance and the Clinton health plan

Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007
Middle-Class Americans Join Ranks of Uninsured in 2006 as Private Coverage Shrinks

Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Study: Little Evidence that "Disease Management" Programs Control Health Costs

Posted on Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Michael Moore's "Sicko" to Premiere in Sacramento on June 12 with California Nurses Association and Physicians for a National Health Program

Posted on Friday, June 1, 2007
Quality of Healthcare at Least as Good in Canada as in U.S.

Posted on Tuesday, May 1, 2007
High Deductible Plans Penalize Women, Middle-Aged Adults, Sick Children

Posted on Monday, April 2, 2007
Study shows U.S. residents are less healthy, less able to access health care than Canadians

Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Massachusetts Health Reform Bill: A False Promise of Universal Coverage

Posted on Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Budget blind to disaster in health care

Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006
PNHP Board Member on How to Fix the Medicare Drug Benefit

Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006
1 in 5 Health Care Dollars Used for Insurance Paperwork

Posted on Friday, November 11, 2005
Projected Savings from Electronic Medical Records Called Illusory

Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Physician Group Decries 859,000 Rise in Uninsured

Posted on Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Immigrants' Health Care Costs are Low

Posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Bankruptcy Study Highlights Need For National Health Insurance

Posted on Wednesday, February 2, 2005
1.7 Million Veterans Lacked Health Coverage In 2003

Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Number of Uninsured Americans Rises to 45 Million

Posted on Tuesday, September 14, 2004
For-Profit Hospitals are Costlier Than Non-Profits

Posted on Monday, June 7, 2004
Most Physicians Endorse Single-Payer National Health Insurance

Posted on Monday, February 9, 2004
National Health Insurance Could Save $286 Billion on Health Care Paperwork

Posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Majority of Americans Support National Health Insurance

Posted on Monday, October 20, 2003
Physicians' Group Decries 2.4 Million Rise in Number of Americans Lacking Health Insurance

Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Editorial in Science calls for Debate on Single Payer National Health Insurance

Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2003
Administrative Costs in Market-Driven U.S. Health Care System Far Higher Than in Canada's Single-Payer System

Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003
Doctors Call for National Health Insurance

Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Physicians' Proposal in JAMA(pdf)

Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Famed HMO Whistleblower and Patients' Rights Ethicist Threatened with Jail

Posted on Friday, May 23, 2003
Wisconsin Joins State-Led Single-Payer National Health Program Movement with Universal Health Care Bill

Posted on Thursday, March 6, 2003
California Single-Payer Bill Introduced

Posted on Tuesday, March 4, 2003
Physicians Propose Solution to Rising Health Care Costs and Uninsured

Posted on Monday, February 3, 2003
Patients more likely to die in private for-profit dialysis centers, major study finds

Posted on Wednesday, November 20, 2002
Number Without Health Insurance Climbs 2.5 million Over Previous Estimate

Posted on Friday, September 27, 2002
Vermonters Rally for Health Care For All

Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002
Government Funds 60% of U.S. Healthcare Costs

Posted on Tuesday, July 9, 2002
Deaths Rates are Higher at Investor-Owned Hospitals, According to Analysis of 35 million U.S. Hospitalizations

Posted on Tuesday, May 28, 2002
"Damaged Care" Premiere Features HMO Whistleblower

Posted on Friday, May 10, 2002
PNHP's Comments on the ACP-ASIM Proposal for Health Reform

Posted on Sunday, May 5, 2002
Providing Health Insurance to All Could Save Billions on Health Costs

Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2002
1 in 8 Health Care Workers Lack Health Insurance

Posted on Friday, February 22, 2002
Humana Medical Reviewer Admits to Denying Heart Transplant

Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002
Quality of Care Lower in For-Profit Nursing Homes than in Non-Profits

Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001
We Pay for National Health Insurance but Don't Get It

Posted on Thursday, July 5, 2001
Proposal of the Physicians' Working for Single-Payer Health Insurance

Posted on Saturday, May 5, 2001
Sweeping Health Care Reform Proposed by Nation's Top Physicians

Posted on Wednesday, May 2, 2001
Single Payer Health Care Hearings Mobilize Progressive Members of Congress, Key Constituencies

Posted on Tuesday, May 1, 2001
PNHP Comments on AAFP Reform

Posted on Friday, January 5, 2001
Despite Economic Boom, Number of Uninsured Drops Only 4 Percent

Posted on Friday, September 29, 2000
Medical Errors Higher at For-Profit than Not-for-Profit Hospitals, Harvard Study Finds

Posted on Friday, March 24, 2000
Claim That HMO's Save Money Is Little More Than "Folklore," Health Affairs Study Finds

Posted on Friday, March 24, 2000
Less Than Half of Americans Have Health Insurance Paid for by Private Employers

Posted on Wednesday, September 1, 1999
New England Journal of Medicine Editorial Says Evidence Against For-Profit Hospitals Now Conclusive

Posted on Wednesday, August 4, 1999
Quality of Care Lower in For-Profit HMOs than in Non-Profits

Posted on Tuesday, July 13, 1999
Majority (57%) of Academic Medicine Physicians Favor Single-Payer

Posted on Wednesday, March 24, 1999
U.S. Doctors to Seek Asylum in Canada

Posted on Monday, November 9, 1998
Number of Americans Without Health Insurance Jumps to 43.2 Million

Posted on Friday, September 25, 1998
ER CARE IS NOT CAUSE OF HIGH HEALTHCARE COSTS, HARVARD STUDY SAYS

Posted on Tuesday, September 1, 1998
For-Profit Hospitals Costlier and Less Efficient

Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 1997
ER Care Is Not Cause of High Health Care Costs, Harvard Study Says

Posted on Tuesday, October 15, 1996
Democrats Retreat on Health Care; Doctors Hold Down Fort

Posted on Thursday, August 29, 1996
Doctors Oppose the Democrats' Retreat on Health Care

Posted on Friday, August 23, 1996
Statement of Dr. Susan Steigerwalt on the Merger of AETNA and U.S. Health Care

Posted on Tuesday, April 2, 1996
U.S. Health System Has More Paper Pushers, Fewer Nurses, Study Says

Posted on Monday, January 1, 1996
Statement of Dr. Quentin Young on the Republican Conference Report on Medicare

Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 1995
Physicians' Group Condems AMA Support for GOP Medicare Plan

Posted on Thursday, October 12, 1995
STATEMENT OF DR. STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER ON THE HOUSE REPUBLICAN PROPOSAL ON MEDICARE

Posted on Thursday, September 14, 1995

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