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Doctors’ group endorses the Medicare for All Act of 2021

Posted March 17, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 17, 2021

Contact: Clare Fauke, PNHP communications specialist, clare@pnhp.org or 312-782-6006
Dr. Susan Rogers, PNHP President, s.rogers@pnhp.org

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Physicians for a National

Universal Healthcare Less Costly Than Previously Projected: Harvard/UCSF Study

Posted January 5, 2021

For Immediate Release: January 5, 2021
CONTACT:
Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H., Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, agaffney@cha.harvard.edu
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H., City University of New York

Emergency Press Conference On Human Rights Day to Address the Worsening COVID-19 Crisis and to Demand Medicare for All

Posted December 7, 2020

RALEIGH, NC — On Thursday, December 10, a grassroots coalition of frontline workers, including physicians and city workers, along with human rights advocates from around

Vermont Medical Society endorses single-payer health care reform

Posted November 23, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nov. 23, 2020
Contact: Clare Fauke, PNHP Communications Specialist, clare@pnhp.org

The Vermont Medical Society (VMS) overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution supporting a single-payer national health program,

More than 2 million Americans Lost Health Coverage during Trump’s First Three Years in Office, Leading to Thousands of Premature Deaths: New Harvard Analysis

Posted October 29, 2020

A new analysis of federal surveys on health insurance coverage concludes that the number of uninsured Americans increased by about 2.3 million between 2016 and 2019.

Americans home sick from work with Coronavirus symptoms disproportionately low-income, people of color, uninsured, and unable to afford food: Harvard study

Posted September 10, 2020

For Immediate Release: Sept. 10, 2020

CONTACT:
Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H., Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, agaffney@cha.harvard.edu
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H., City University of New York

Another physicians group endorses Medicare for All

Posted August 12, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 12, 2020

Contact: Oliver Fein, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, ofein@med.cornell.edu
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H., PNHP co-founder, steffie_woolhandler@hms.harvard.edu
Clare Fauke, PNHP

As COVID-19 Spread in April, Work Absence due to Illness was Highest on Record: New JAMA-IM Study

Posted July 27, 2020

July 27, 2020

Contact:
Adam Gaffney, MD MPH, Harvard Medical School, agaffney@cha.harvard.edu
Steffie Woolhandler, MD MPH, City University of New York (CUNY) at Hunter College, steffie_woolhandler@hms.harvard.edu

In mid-April, as

81 million Americans live in homes that lack enough space and bathrooms to follow COVID-19 quarantine and isolation recommendations

Posted July 21, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 21, 2020

Contact: Ashwini Sehgal, M.D., sehgal@case.edu
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H., co-founder, Physicians for a National Health Program, swoolhan@hunter.cuny.edu or Steffie_Woolhandler@hms.harvard.edu
Clare Fauke, communications

18.2 million at increased risk of severe COVID-19 are uninsured or underinsured: Harvard study 

Posted June 10, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 10, 2020

Contact: Clare Fauke, communications specialist, Physicians for a National Health Program, clare@pnhp.org, 312-782-6006
Dr. Adam Gaffney, Physicians for a National Health Program,

Police violence and racism are public health emergencies

Posted June 2, 2020

The horrific murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police has sparked protests nationwide. Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), an organization

Doctors’ group demands the American Hospital Association leave anti-single payer dark-money organization

Posted May 21, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 21, 2020

Contact:
Dr. Adam Gaffney, PNHP President, gaffney.adam@gmail.com
Clare Fauke, PNHP communications specialist, clare@pnhp.org

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