New Hampshire
New Hampshire Information
CONTACT INFORMATION
Granite State PNHPWebsite: http://nh.pnhp.org/
E-mail: gspnhp@hotmail.com
Media Contact
John Daly, MD
jpdaley64@comcast.net
John Daley MD is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Wisconsin Medical School, where he joined PNHP in 1989. He completed his residency in family medicine at Brown University, and has been in private practice in a large family practice group in Derry, New Hampshire for 14 years. He is an associate professor of family medicine at Tufts University Medical School, and is presently chief of staff at Parkland Medical Center, Derry, NH.
State Legislation
H.B 88 (Link)
Establishes a committee to study single payer health care. Passed House, In Senate Committee
State Organizations Endorsing HR676
- New Hampshire House of Representatives
Local Unions Endorsing HR676
- Local 2320, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Manchester, NH
March 7, 2008
Opinions of New Hampshire Doctors Contrast with Presidential Candidate Plans for Healthcare Reform
The survey found that 81% of responding physicians agree healthcare should be “available to all citizens as part of the social contract, a right similar to basic education, police and fire protection”, with 94% of primary care doctors endorsing this view. Two thirds of New Hampshire doctors, including 81% of primary care clinicians, indicated they “would favor a simplified payor system in which public funds, collected through taxes, were used to pay directly for services to meet the basic healthcare needs of all citizens”. Only one third of physicians indicated support for an employer-based system or agreed that “the free market system is the best way to create a high quality, equitable, affordable and accessible healthcare system”.
January 12, 2008
A health care system for all, that works for all
Thomas Clairmont, M.D. & Pamela Clairmont, R.N. | Portsmouth Herald
No one likes the current system with 47 million uninsured, an equal number under-insured, 50 percent of bankruptcies related to medical debt and heartbreaking story after story in the newspapers about local citizen’s problems with the health care system. So how about evidence-based governance? All you have to do is look at the systems in Canada, Britain, France and other nations to see that it is possible to devise a health care program that covers everyone the same way, without any middlemen, and where there is never any worry about being able to afford a doctor’s visit or an operation.
Monday, May 2, 2007
Single-payer system would give us the world’s best care
By DR. JOHN DALEY | Union Leader | Commentary
As a family physician on the front lines of medicine I daily see the difficulties patients face due to lack of insurance or under-insurance. Generally these patients ration their own care, disappearing for a year or two when they lose their job and insurance, only to return with sky-high blood pressures or out- of-control diabetes, effectively taking years off their lives.