Our Mission: Single-Payer National Health Insurance
Greg Silver, MD (Fl.)
The U.S. spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care, $7,129 per capita. Yet our system performs poorly in comparison and still leaves 47 million without health coverage and millions more inadequately covered.
This is because private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar. Streamlining payment through a single nonprofit payer would save more than $350 billion per year, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans.
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What You Can Do
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Physicians
Medical Students
Citizen Activists
Labor Organizers
PNHP is at the forefront of research and action for a single-payer national health program. Click to view press releases.
Endorse Our Open Letter to the Candidates
Nancy Furey, MD and
Arnold Widen, MD (IL)
We invite you to join in endorsing the “Open Letter to the Presidential Candidates” on single payer national health insurance.
Please join in this initiative. The health of our patients and the future of our profession is at stake.
The Physicians' Proposal
Marcia Angell, MD
Past Editor
New England
Journal of Medicine
We endorse a fundamental change in America's health care - the creation of a comprehensive National Health Insurance (NHI) Program. Such a program - which in essence would be an expanded and improved version of Medicare - would cover every American for all necessary medical care.
Click here to read the entire proposal (pdf)
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