Remember that we all have talents to contribute. Without Bill Hughes taking the video, our action wouldn’t have been as fruitful. Without Kevin Zeese, we’d have worried about our families and “legal stuff.” Without Mark Almberg, we wouldn’t have a press release. Without researchers like David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, we wouldn’t have compelling data to support us. We draw support from each other.

In the wake of Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, the need for medicines, basic medical supplies, food and shelter is extremely urgent. Financial contributions to the relief effort are also badly needed, as are trained medical staff. There are numerous ways to help groups already on the ground in Haiti. One of the best, Partners [...]

By Jeoffry  B. Gordon, MD, MPH Any doctor with a brain and a heart who practices medicine these days has daily experiences with the many disastrous shortcomings of our medical system. As the graph below shows we spend nearly $8000 per person per year on health services involving 18% of our GDP and we have [...]

“Circles of Exclusion: The Politics of Health Care in Israel” By Dani Filc, M.D., with a foreword by Quentin Young, M.D. Cornell University Press, 2009 Hardcover, 208 pp., $35 Dr. Quentin Young, national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program, has written a foreword to a new book by Dr. Dani Filc of Israel. [...]

Co-founders of Physicians for a National Health Program say the push for single-payer Medicare for All continues We recently interviewed Dr. David Himmelstein and Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, co-founders of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), about the health bills emerging in Congress and the status of the movement for single-payer Medicare for All. Both [...]

Legislation ‘would bring more harm than good,’ group says For Immediate Release Dec. 22, 2009 Contact: David Himmelstein, M.D. Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H. Oliver Fein, M.D. Mark Almberg, PNHP, (312) 782-6006, mark@pnhp.org A national organization of 17,000 physicians who favor a single-payer health care system called on the U.S. Senate today to defeat the health [...]

Senate speech heralds a new social movement by Margaret Flowers and Andy Coates This week the sincere effort of millions of people across the nation once again proved effective in the face of determined opposition from the White House and Congress, as single payer health reform reached another milestone in its historic journey. When the [...]

Does Ezra Klein really think “managed care didn’t kill anyone”? by Kip Sullivan, JD Get ready for the next liberal excuse for not supporting single-payer: Managed care. Yes, the managed care that infuriated the public with its limits on patient choice of doctor and its interference in the doctor-patient relationship, that induced merger madness throughout [...]

Part 6: Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all Should polls matter? By Kip Sullivan, JD I am here today to say I think the employer-based health care system is dead. I think we need to find a system that’s not built on the back of the government. I am here to also say I don’t think [...]

The following letter to the editor by Dr. Howard Green of Florida was sent to the New England Journal of Medicine in early November. It had not yet been published as of the Dec. 10 issue. The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has had a decades-old policy of financial disclosure by authors of editorials [...]