PNHPās North Star is the Physiciansā Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform. If you havenāt read the Physiciansā Proposal, please do so todayāand share it with your colleagues!
In addition to this bedrock vision, PNHP has published reports and proposals on a range of health-related topics. Please see below for a chronological list, as well as a series of statements on timely health justice issues.
PNHP Reports and Proposals
No Real Choices: How Medicare Advantage Fails Seniors of Color
By Physicians for a National Health Program
Originally published Oct. 15, 2025
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Removing the Middlemen from Medicaid: A Blueprint for Better Care and Lower Costs
By Physicians for a National Health Program
Originally published Sept. 2, 2025
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Taking Advantage: How Corporate Health Insurers Harm Americaās Seniors
By Physicians for a National Health Program
Originally published May 23, 2024
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Our Payments, Their Profits: Quantifying Overpayments in the Medicare Advantage Program
By Physicians for a National Health Program
Originally published Oct. 4, 2023
Click HERE to read the report
Eight Needed Steps in the Fight Against COVID-19
By Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.
Originally published in Boston Review, April 3, 2020
Click HERE to access the proposal and additional materials
Healing an ailing pharmaceutical system: Prescription for reform for U.S. and Canada
By Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.; Joel Lexchin, M.D.; and the US, Canadian Pharmaceutical Policy Reform Working Group
Originally published in The BMJ, May 17, 2018
Click HERE to access the proposal and supplemental materials
A Better-Quality Alternative: Single-Payer National Health System Reform
By Gordon D. Schiff, M.D.; Andrew B. Bindman, M.D.; and Troyen A. Brennan, M.D., J.D., M.P.H.; for the PNHP Quality of Care Working Group
Originally published in JAMA, Sept. 14, 1994
Click HERE to read the proposal
A National Long-term Care Program for the United States: A Caring Vision
By Charlene Harrington, R.N., Ph.D.; Christine Cassel, M.D.; Carroll L. Estes, Ph.D.; Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.; David U. Himmelstein, M.D.; and the Working Group on Long-term Care Program Design
Originally published in JAMA, Dec. 4, 1991
Click HERE to read the proposal
Liberal Benefits, Conservative Spending
By Kevin Grumbach, M.D.; Thomas Bodenheimer, M.D., M.P.H.; David U. Himmelstein, M.D.; and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.
Originally published in JAMA, May 15, 1991
Click HERE to read the proposal
PNHP Statements
Consensus Statement on Expanding Prior Authorization in Traditional Medicare
Click HERE to read our statementāoriginally issued Aug. 5, 2025
CMS should terminate the Medicare Advantage program
Click HERE to read our statementāoriginally issued Aug. 25, 2022
Abortion care is fundamental health care
Click HERE to read our statementāoriginally issued June 24, 2022
Police violence and racism are public health emergencies
Click HERE to read our statementāoriginally issued June 2, 2020
Board of Directors statements on diversity, reproductive rights, and mifepristone
Click HERE to read these statementsāscroll to the bottom of the page