Subscribe to Receive the Daily Report

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

Don’t Repeal Health Law – Go Beyond It To Single-payer Medicare For All’: Doctor’s Group

Author:    
Source:     Physicians For A National Health Program
Publication Date:     Jan. 7, 2011
 Link: Don’t Repeal Health Law – Go Beyond It To Single-payer Medicare For All’: Doctor’s Group
Stephan:   Larry Dossey sent me this. I cannot improve upon his note that accompanied the URL: 'Few people seem to know that the majority of U.S. physicians favored a single payer/universal coverage approach during the healthcare debate. That they did so is not surprising, because doctors see the tragedies of the illness profit system daily, close up. 'Here is one group of physicians that proves that sanity still exists among America's doctors.' Thanks to Larry, Dossey, MD.

A nationwide organization of doctors who favor a single-payer health care system today rejected calls by Republican leaders to repeal the new health law, noting that the law contains modest benefits for patients that should not be spurned.

At the same time, the doctors said that the enactment of a single-payer, Medicare-for-all program is the only way to assure high quality, comprehensive care to all Americans and the only way to rein in skyrocketing health care costs.

‘We reject the call by Republican leaders to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), even as we recognize the new law is incapable of resolving our health care morass,

Read the Full Article