APA President Urges Support For Single-Payer Insurance System
American Psychiatric Association
Psychiatric News
June 16, 2006
The events that (APA President Steven) Sharfstein weathered this past year underscored the importance of the advocacy mission in which he had challenged his fellow APA members to join him. He left them with this simple but weighty message:
“We must tirelessly advocate for [single-payer universal health reform]. As the health care crisis extends and mushrooms, with more and more Americans without adequate coverage, the opportunity for such change will come at national, state, and local levels. And we must be there as advocates for our patients.”