By Marcosa J. Santiago, M.D. | Laconia Daily Sun, May 16, 2017
The ACA (ObamaCare) patch, written by private health insurance and pharmaceutical industries but excluding consumer advocates, gave some benefits, but introduced more complexity to paying for health care. It protected and bolstered private insurance profits, through sale of mandated coverage and penalties for failure to buy.

By Robert S. Kiefner, M.D. | Concord (N.H.) Monitor, April 4, 2017
In a colossal setback for those who are indifferent to the health and well-being of their fellow Americans, the Republicans failed to repeal and replace Obamacare.

By Robert S. Kiefner, M.D. | Concord (N.H.) Monitor, March 2, 2017
With the impending repeal of the Affordable Care Act, the Republican-controlled House and Senate have a unique opportunity to initiate truly universal and affordable health care through their support of “Medicare for all.”

By Ahmed Kutty, M.D. | Granite State Chapter PNHP, Sept. 14, 2016
The following text is an unofficial, lightly edited transcript of testimony delivered by Dr. Ahmed Kutty to a subcommittee of New Hampshire’s House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee on Sept. 14, 2016. The session was co-chaired by state Reps. Thomas Sherman, M.D., and John Fothergill, M.D.; and included subcommittee member Rep. Susan Emerson.

By Robert S. Kiefner, M.D. | Concord (N.H.) Monitor
Through some mutation of American exceptionalism, we have come to believe that by spending more per capita on health care than any other country on Earth, we must surely enjoy the best health on the planet. Not so, not by a long shot.

By James Fieseher, M.D. | Concord (N.H.) Monitor
As much as we’ve prospered as a nation under the “free market” system, one size doesn’t fit all. There are just some things that don’t belong in a free-market system, particularly when it comes to an integration of services.

By James Fieseher, M.D. | Concord (N.H.) Monitor
In American politics, ideology often supersedes reason. We don’t have to look any further than in the New Hampshire state Legislature.

By James Fieseher, M.D. | Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald
What does the CEO of a health insurance company do to merit a 51 percent pay raise — during the biggest recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s?

By James Fieseher, M.D. | Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald
In the land where the Supreme Court recognizes corporations as "people," political contributions are seen as a "right of free speech," and multi-billion-dollar corporations are given taxpayer bailouts, it is little wonder that politicians are willing to shut down the government in an effort to support a bloated health care system that fails to cover more than 80 percent of Americans while charging us three times the cost of health care as in other industrialized nations.

By Thomas P. Clairmont, M.D. | Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald
Free markets don't work in health care. Every business wants more customers. In health insurance, however, that isn't true. They only want the healthy, who won't hurt their bottom line of excessive profits, inordinate executive compensation and returns to stockholders.

Dr. Thomas Clairmont, a leader of Physicians for a National Health Program in New Hampshire, gave the following radio interview to WSCA, Portsmouth Community Radio, on May 1, 2012. In the course of the interview Dr. Clairmont provides a rather comprehensive exposition of what a single-payer system will look like. This audio recording lasts about 30 minutes.

By Thomas Clairmont, M.D. | Letters, Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald
With 65,000 Maine citizens about to be ejected from their Medicaid insurance, and 3,500 New Hampshire citizens with Medicaid eliminated from practices at Lakes Region Hospital, the time is long past to solve injustice in health care. You wouldn't know it from the recent primary, where the only "plan" to help you with health care was to repeal President Obama's Affordable Care Act and replace it with ... nothing.

By Thomas P Clairmont, W. Jost Michelsen and Patricia A Locuratolo | Letters, Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald
There was absolutely no mention, as usual, of a publicly financed but privately delivered approach — also called single-payer or Medicare for All. Dr. David Himmelstein of Physicians for a National Health Program said reducing administrative overhead to Canadian levels would save $400 billion annually, "more than enough to cover our uninsured." This is what most other countries do and they cover all of their citizens at a cost of less than half of the United States.

Ted Drummond, MD | Letters | Seacoastonline.com
On a national level, eliminating the Bush tax cuts for people who make over $250,000 a year and shifting our health care system away from one that is profit-driven toward a model centered on health (e.g. Medicare-for-all) would improve our health and pocketbook. Here in New Hampshire, we weathered the recent economic downturn better than many places. Slight adjustments to our current tax structure could easily pay for the cuts some say are "necessary."

By SCOTT E. KINNEY | Foster's Daily Democrat (N.H.)
Nearly 60 city residents gather in the Levinson Meeting Room of the Portsmouth Public Library Wednesday night to educate themselves on the continued fight for a single-payer health care system.

By Jason Claffey | Foster's Daily Democrat
The health care reform bill passed earlier this year — the largest expansion of coverage since Medicare was enacted in 1965 — did not go far enough, a prominent physician told the Portsmouth Rotary Club Thursday.

Portsmouth Herald
Portsmouth Primary Care Associates invites the public to "Everybody In, Nobody Out, One Group, One Plan, One Rate," a forum on health care reform from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 10, at the Frank Jones Center on the Route 1 Bypass.

By ROB KIEFNER | Letter to the editor | Concord (N.H.) Monitor
While the unholy and enigmatic alliances between lobbyists, insurance companies and their friends in Congress are responsible in large part for the unsettling vicissitudes of health care reform, Big Pharma must surely share in the blame game as well.