Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, founder of Physicians for a National Health Program and co-author of Harvard bankruptcy study, to call for single-payer health care program
Media Advisory
Contact:
Mark
Doctors' group backs single-payer amendment to House health care bill
16,000 physicians urge passage of substitute 'Medicare for all' motion
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July 16, 2009
Contact:
Quentin Young, M.D., (312) 782-6006, info@pnhp.org
Mark Almberg, (312) 782-6006, cell: (312) 622-0996,
Physicians to tell House panels: single payer is only true health reform
Doctors say Democrats' plan offers micro-coverage for macro-costs
Media Advisory
June 23, 2009
Contacts:
Quentin Young, M.D., (312) 782-6006
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H., steffie_woolhandler@hms.harvard.edu
Mark Almberg, PNHP, (312) 782-6006, cell: (312)
Single-payer advocate speaks to Blue Dogs on health reform
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June 19, 2009
Contacts:
Robert Stone, M.D., cell: (812) 369-6414, (812) 333-8085, grostone@gmail.com
Mark Almberg, (312) 782-6006, cell: (312) 622-0996, mark@pnhp.org
Dr. Robert Stone, a leader of
Illness, medical bills linked to nearly two-thirds of bankruptcies: Harvard study
Harvard study finds 50 percent increase from 2001
Most of those bankrupted by illness were middle class and had insurance
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June 4, 2009, 12:01
Health, life insurers hold billions in tobacco stocks: NEJM article
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New Report Casts Exclusion of Single Payer Option as a Question of Democracy and Human Rights
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Contact:
Cathy Albisa on 212-253-1710 x 303 or cathy@nesri.org
Victoria Grant on 212-253-1710 x 308 or victoria@nesri.org
The National Economic & Social
Doctors, nurses to demonstrate for single-payer health system outside Senate Finance Committee hearing
Physicians join with nurses in 'Florence Nightingale protest' in support of Medicare for All
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May 11, 2009
Contacts:
Margaret Flowers, M.D.
Carol Paris, M.D.
Clark Newhall, M.D.
Mark Almberg,
Doctors protest exclusion of single-payer at Senate Finance Committee
This article includes videoFor Immediate Release
May 5, 2009
Contact:
Russell Mokhiber, Single Payer Action, (202) 468-8868, russellmokhiber@gmail.com
Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! (330) 618-6379, healthcarenow08@gmail.com
Margaret Flowers, M.D., Physicians for a National
Cost control, universal care impossible without single-payer health system: Harvard physician
Policy expert challenges effectiveness of lesser reforms at House panel
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April 23, 2009, 11 a.m. EDT
Contact:
David Himmelstein, M.D.
Mark Almberg, PNHP, (312) 782-6006, cell: (312) 622-0996,
Media Advisory: Single-payer supporters to rally at April 6 health forum in Los Angeles
Physicians, nurses and health reform advocates to urge enactment of an improved 'Medicare for All,' decry outsized influence of corporate medicine in health reform debate
FOR
Media Advisory: Single-payer supporters to rally at March 31 health forum in Greensboro
Physicians, nurses and health reform advocates to urge enactment of an improved 'Medicare for All,' decry outsized influence of corporate medicine at regional meeting
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