FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, December 2, 2016Contact: Mark Almberg, PNHP communications director, (312) 782-6006, mark@pnhp.orgDr. Robert Zarr, president of Physicians for a National Health Program, made
Doctors to protest high drug prices outside PhRMA headquarters Nov. 18
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, November 16, 2016CONTACT: Mark Almberg, mark@pnhp.org, 312-782-6006
Medical students to hold national day of action for ‘improved Medicare for All’ on Halloween
Citing medicine’s enormous potential to fight against disease and death, medical students say Americans continue to be ‘haunted’ and harmed by health care profiteers; ‘Let’s
Stronger Rx than Obamacare needed to cover everyone and control costs: physician leader
Citing Census Bureau report that 29 million people were uninsured last year, and noting that rising deductibles and other out-of-pocket expenses are deterring millions of
Minority youth rarely get help for mental health problems: nationwide study
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Aug. 12, 2016
Contact: Mark Almberg, PNHP communications director, 312-782-6006, mark@pnhp.org
Black children and young adults are about half as likely as their white counterparts
Wealthier Americans now receive much more health care than middle class or poor, reversing a 50-year trend: Harvard study
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 6, 2016
Contact: Mark Almberg, PNHP, mark@pnhp.org, (312) 782-6006
Inequality in the use of health care has increased dramatically in recent years, with wealthier
Doctors call for single-payer health reform, cite need to move beyond the Affordable Care Act
American Journal of Public Health publishes physicians’ call for sweeping single-payer reform with detailed proposal signed by over 2,200 doctors nationwideUnveiling of proposal coincides with
Neoliberal Health Model Comes Home to Roost in the United States—If We Let It
Obamacare repeats an approach to expanding private health insurance that has not worked in other countries, new study findsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, May 1, 2016Contact: Howard
Oaths Taken: Graduating Medical Students Pledge Support for Single-Payer Health Care
For a current, nationwide list of students who have signed the Match Day Pledge, click here. If you would like to speak with a student
‘Cadillac tax’ on health benefits will hit middle class hardest: study
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 11, 2016
Contact: Mark Almberg, PNHP communications director, 312-782-6006, mark@pnhp.org
Although both liberal and conservative economists have denounced the longstanding exemption of employment-based health
Statement in memory of Dr. Quentin Young, 1923 – 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 8, 2016Contact: Mark Almberg, PNHP communications director, (312) 782-6006, mark@pnhp.orgThe following statement was released today by Dr. Robert Zarr, president of
Doctors group welcomes national debate on ‘Medicare for All’
Nonpartisan physicians group calls single-payer reform ‘the only effective remedy’ for nation’s continuing health care woes and urges focus on facts, not rhetoricFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE,