FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nov. 17, 2008
Contacts:
Andrew A. Herring
David U. Himmelstein, M.D.
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D.
Mark Almberg, (312) 782-6006, mark@pnhp.org
People who lack health insurance are about 20
Doctors, citing mandate for change, call on Obama, Congress to 'do the right thing' on health reform
15,000 physicians urge enactment of single-payer system
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nov. 5, 2008
Contact:
Quentin Young, M.D., (312) 782-6006, info@pnhp.org
Don McCanne, M.D., don@mccanne.org
David Himmelstein, M.D.
Mark Almberg, (312) 782-6006, cell:
Doctors, citing mandate for change, call on Obama, Congress to ‘do the right thing’ on health reform
15,000 physicians urge enactment of single-payer system
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nov. 5, 2008
Contact:
Quentin Young, M.D., (312) 782-6006, info@pnhp.org
Don McCanne, M.D., don@mccanne.org
David Himmelstein, M.D.
Mark Almberg, (312) 782-6006,
Beware 'siren song' of privatizers, U.S. doctor tells Canadians
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Oct. 7, 2008
Contact:
Mark Almberg, Physicians for a National Health Program, (312) 782-6006, mark@pnhp.org
Canada's publicly funded health insurance program known as medicare "is one
Doctors to candidates: enact single-payer health reform
Embargoed until:
Oct. 6, 2008
5:30 p.m. EDT
Contacts:
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D.
Oliver Fein, M.D.
Mark Almberg, PNHP, (312) 782-6006, mark@pnhp.org
Over 5,000 U.S. physicians have signed an open letter calling on
Small book on 'single payer' packs surprising wallop
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sept. 16, 2008
Contact:
Mark Almberg, (312) 782-6006, mark@pnhp.org
10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care
Edited by Mary E. O'Brien, M.D., and Martha Livingston, Ph.D.
Foreward by
Hundreds Gather in Albany to Launch Statewide Single Payer Health Care Coalition
New State Coalition Urges Lawmakers to Adopt a Single Payer Universal Health Care System
Single Payer New York Media Release
For Release: September 13, 2008
Slight drop in uninsured masks deepening problem, doctors say
For Immediate Release
Aug. 26, 2008
Contact:
Don McCanne, M.D., don@mccanne.org
Data released this morning by the Census Bureau showing a slight drop in the number of Americans who
Copy Massachusetts' health reform? Not so fast, researchers say
For full text of the study: https://pnhp.org/states_flatline/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Aug. 11, 2008
Contacts:
David Himmelstein, M.D., (312) 782-6006
Benjamin Day, (617) 777-3422, director@masscare.org
Mark Almberg, (312) 782-6006, mark@pnhp.org
City of Austin backs 'single-payer' health plan
For Immediate Release:
August 7, 2008
Contacts:
Bill Holloway, Health Care for All Texas (HCFAT), (512) 744-7487, bill.holloway@gmail.com
Ana Malinow, M.D., Physicians for a National Health Program and HCFAT,
Millions of chronically ill, lacking insurance, can't get needed care
Copies of the study are available at http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/abstract/149/3/170
Embargoed until:
August 4, 2008
5:01 p.m. EST
Contacts:
Andrew P. Wilper, M.D., (503) 260-4948, wilp9522@u.washington.edu
Mark Almberg, (312) 782-6006, mark@pnhp.org
Pro-single-payer Doctors' Group Announces New Blog
For immediate release:
July 9, 2008
Contact:
Quentin Young, M.D., (312) 782-6006, info@pnhp.org
www.pnhp.org/blog
Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) today launched a new blog that looks at the