PNHP 2009 Annual Meeting Resources
PNHP 2009 Annual Meeting Agenda:
Health Policy in the Obama Era: Market-based or Evidence-based Reform?
PNHP 2009 Annual Meeting Speaker Bios
Slides
PNHP 2009 Long Slide Set (2,518KB)
Slides from "Health Politics in the Obama Era" by Dr. David Himmelstein and "Massachusetts: No 'Model' for National Reform" by Dr. Steffie Woolhandler are now included in the PNHP long slide set.
Single Payer Universal Health Insurance for the USA (415KB)
Dr. William C. Hsiao
The Truth About the Drug Companies (1,093KB)
Dr. Marcia Angell
PNHP Activism (4,164KB)
Dr. Oliver Fein
Health Care for All: Fiscally Conservative, Socially Responsible (13,826KB)
Dr. Rob Stone
The History of Opposition to NHI in the United States (5,973KB)
Dr. Theodore M. Brown
PNHP Chapter Organizing (76KB)
Dr. Oliver Fein
PNHP Chapter Organizing: “The Minnesota Experience” (202KB)
Drs. Ann Settgast and Susan Hasti
Packet Materials
Testimony of Quentin Young, M.D., to the House Ways and Means Committee
Testimony of Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., to the Health Subcommittee
Testimony of David U. Himmelstein, M.D. before the HELP Subcommittee
Written Statement of Marcia Angell, M. D. before the HELP Subcommittee
Does Universal Health Insurance Make Health Care Unaffordable? Lessons From Taiwan by Jui-Fen Rachel Lu and William C. Hsiao | HEALTH AFFAIRS ~ Volume 22, Number 3
A Superior System: Comparison between H.R. 3200 and single payer
Research by Physicians for a National Health Program
Financing single-payer national health insurance: Myths and facts
Talking Points: Why the mandate plans won't work, and why single-payer "Medicare for All" is what we need
By Len Rodberg, Ph.D.
Why Obama's Public Option Is Defective, and Why We Need Single-Payer
By Drs. Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein | The Progressive
Medicare points the way to genuine health care reform
By John Geyman and Deborah Burger | Star-Ledger
It's Simple: Medicare for All
By George S. McGovern | Washington Post
Questions for Dr. Marcia Angell
By Anne Underwood | Prescriptions Blog | New York Times
Giving Single-Payer a Second Look
By Rep. Anthony Weiner | Huffington Post
The private health industry's time is up
By Bernie Sanders | Opinion | Christian Science Monitor
An ex-insider speaks out
By Faye Flam | Philadelphia Inquirer
Health: a fight for rights
By Margaret Flowers | Baltimore Sun
Insured, but Bankrupted Anyway
By Anne Underwood | New York Times Prescriptions blog
The lack of universal health care is a mass killer in this country
By Deb Richter | The Progressive Media Project
5 Myths About Health Care Around the World
By T.R. Reid | Washington Post
A Canadian doctor diagnoses U.S. healthcare
By Michael M. Rachlis | Los Angeles Times
Britain's National Health Service: Simple, sensible and civilized
By Clancy Sigal | Opinion | Los Angeles Times
Press Releases
Harvard study finds nearly 45,000 excess deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage - September 17, 2009
New uninsured figures show Massachusetts, touted as model for national reform, is failing to cover the uninsured - September 10, 2009
New Harvard study reveals that taxing job-based health benefits would hit working families hardest - August 20, 2009
New poll shows Canadians overwhelmingly support public health care - August 12, 2009
House vote on single payer will be historic first, doctors' group says - August 5, 2009
Obama's health care reform policy is the wrong prescription, say president's former physician and public health groups - July 30, 2009
Illness, medical bills linked to nearly two-thirds of bankruptcies: Harvard study - June 4, 2009
Doctors arrested protesting exclusion of single-payer at Senate Finance Committee - May 5, 2009
Massachusetts is no model for national health care reform - February 20, 2009