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PNHP - Western Washington
Website: http://www.pnhpwesternwashington.org/
E-mail: pnhp.westernwashington@comcast.net
PNHP - Inland Northwestern
Contacts: Jeremy Graham, MA, DO and Chris Anderson, MD (Co-Chairs)
E-mail: pnhpnw@gmail.com
Media Contacts
David McLanahan
206.937.7154
mcltan@comcast.net
Dr. Mclanahan is Surgeon Emeritus, Pacific Medical Centers, and Professor Emeritus, University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. McLanahan is the co-founder of the Washington Chapter of PNHP.
Don Mitchell MD | 206.722-6959 | dwmitchell@stanfordalumni.org
Dr. Mitchell was trained at Harvard and is a retired internist and Chair, Western Washington chapter of PNHP.
Hugh Foy | 206.963.0697 | hughfoy@u.washington.edu
Dr. Foy is a professor of Surgery, UW School of Medicine, and Director of the Surgical Specialties Clinic, Harborview Medical Center. Dr. Foy has extensive experience in emergency care and trauma surgery. He trained at UW, and completed a fellowship in Burn Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at Harborview. Dr. Foy is the co-founder of the Washington Chapter of PNHP.
Lisa Plymate MD
206.579.7987
lisaplymate@comcast.net
Dr. Plymate is a staff internist, Yacoma Valley Farm Workers Clinic, Toppenish, Washington. Dr. Plymate is on the Board of Directors of Physicians for a National Health Program, Western Washington.
Sara Weinberg
206.236.0668
weinbergsk@msn.com
Dr. Weinberg is a Retired pediatrician, Mercer Island, and an expert on Washington state’s history of failed health reforms, going back to the 1989 Braddock initiative. Dr. Weinberg graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1977, and completed her pediatric residency in the University of Washington’s Children’s Orthopedic Hospital.
Local Unions Endorsing HR676
- CWA Local 37083, Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, Seattle, WA
- AFSCME Retired Public Employees Council of Washington, Chapter 10
- Washington State Alliance for Retired Americans
- Washington State Machinists Council, International Association of Machinists District #160 (IAM), Seattle, WA
- International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) Local 17, Seattle, WA
- Washington State Labor Council, representing 500 local unions with 400,000 members, endorsing resolution passed at State Convention, August 2006, Seattle, WA
- North West Washington Central Labor Council, Bellingham, WA
Washington State News
William McQuaid | Letters | Seattle Times
Single-payer insurance systems have been proven to cost half as much as we spend. These single-payer insurance systems also cover everyone, eliminating bankruptcies. Our own government statistics prove single-payer insurance systems are the best at controlling costs. All of Locke's numbers pale in comparison with the $400 billion we would save each year by simply eliminating the health-insurance middleman.
David McLanahan | Letters | The Seattle Times
Skyrocketing health-care costs are a major component of our deficit and the new health-care legislation does little to change this trajectory. The best way to decrease the deficit would be to bring our health-care spending under control by enacting an improved and expanded Medicare for all, an equitable system similar to the rest of the industrialized world, where medical costs are half what we spend, with improved quality of care.
Linda Jansen | Seattle Times
Regarding the insurance albatross the politicians just hung around our neck; an estimated 23,000 unnecessary deaths annually will result from 23 million still uninsured nine years out.
B. Jason MacLurg, M.D. | Letter to the Editor | Seattle Post-Intelligencer
As a long-time Seattle physician, I was pleased that the P-I supports health care reform toward a single-payer system (Opinion, Wednesday). Most Americans now fully understand that our health care delivery system is too expensive, too complex, too fragmented and overwhelmingly frustrating. Although some still believe that America has the best health care in the world, the truth is that our reimbursement system is killing us.
Strange Bedfellows blog | Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Single payer seemed like a futile cause during the Bush Administration, which put forward ideals for the partial privatization of Medicare. Now, with a Democrat back in the White House -- and a promise of action on health care - McDermott, and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., have introduced versions of a single payer plan in the new Congress.
Seattle Post-IntelligencerEditorial Board
The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the number of people lacking health insurance dropped by more than 1 million in 2007 to nearly 46 million people. This is a headline that looks great until you see that what's declining is private insurance coverage and what's increasing is the number of people eligible for government programs such as Medicaid.
By Lance Dickie | Editorial Columnist | Seattle Times
Searing headlines about local job cuts sharpen interest in universal health-insurance coverage. The topic grabs the attention of those vulnerable families and voters broadly defined as the middle class, the engine of change. Increasingly, the focus is on national single-payer health insurance. Acceptance of the concept is growing, especially among a key constituency: doctors.
By JOHN GEYMAN and MALINDA MARKOWITZ | Guest Columnist |
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Medicare today covers about 43 million American seniors and the disabled, paying about one-half of their health care expenses. Amidst an increasingly unaffordable health care market, Medicare recipients have a solid rock of coverage. The program is administered with an overhead of about 3 percent, less than one-fifth the overhead of competing private programs, while offering defined benefits with free choice of physician and hospital.
By DAVID MCLANAHAN and DONALD MITCHELL | GUEST COLUMNIST | Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The need for meaningful health care reform remains one of the hottest topics in the public as we approach our national election. An important new study, in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine, reveals a growing consensus among practicing physicians that our broken health care system would be best fixed by legislation establishing national health insurance (NHI).