![]() James Dalen M.D., Executive Director, Weil Foundation Dean Emeritus, University of Arizona College of MedicineĬlaudia Fegan, M.D., Executive Medical Director, Cook County Health and Hospitals System, Chicago Coates, M.D., Chief of Hospital Medicine, Samaritan Hospital, Troy, New York immediate past President, Physicians for a National Health Program Olveen Carrasquillo, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine Director, Health Services Research & Policy, University of Miami Miller School of MedicineĪndrew D. University of California, San Franciscoĭavid Harkavy Bor, M.D., Chief of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MAĪllan Brett, M.D., Professor and Vice Chair of Medicine, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC Thomas Bodenheimer, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Family and Community Medicine. The initial increase in government costs would be offset by savings in premiums and out-of-pocket costs, and the rate of medical inflation would slow, freeing up resources for unmet medical and public health needs.ĭavid Ansell, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago Physicians could opt to be paid on a fee-for-service basis, but with fees adjusted to better reward primary care providers, or by salaries in facilities paid by global budgets. Hospitals, nursing homes, and other provider facilities would be nonprofit, and paid global operating budgets rather than fees for each service. We propose to replace the ACA with a publicly financed National Health Program (NHP) that would fully cover medical care for all Americans, while lowering costs by eliminating the profit-driven private insurance industry with its massive overhead. I am unable to endorse the Physicians’ Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform at this time but would like to make a donation to further this effort.Įven after full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), tens of millions of Americans will remain uninsured or only partially insured, and costs will continue to rise faster than the background inflation rate. I am authorized to speak on behalf of my institution, and my institution wishes to endorse the Physicians’ Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform. I am a non-physician health professional or a reform advocate outside the health professions and I wish to endorse the Physicians’ Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform. I am a physician or medical student and I wish to endorse the Physicians’ Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform. * Affiliations listed for identification purposes only and do not imply institutional endorsement. Marcia Angell, M.D., Former Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine Senior Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Public Health, City University of New York Lecturer in Medicine, Harvard Medical School ![]() Himmelstein, M.D., Professor of Public Health, City University of New York Lecturer in Medicine, Harvard Medical School ![]() The Working Group on Single-Payer Program DesignĪdam Gaffney, M.D., Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship Program, Massachusetts General Hospitalĭavid U. Thank you for partnering with us in this effort. (See below for a complete list of endorsers.) It was published in the June 2016 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, and has been endorsed by 2,525 other physicians and 186 medical students to date. This proposal was drafted by the 39 member Working Group on Single-Payer Program Design. To access content from the news conference, click here.) To read and view media coverage of the proposal, click here. (To view a PDF of the proposal and other, supplemental materials, click here. Learn more about Amazon Lockers.We invite you to add your name to the list of endorsers of “Beyond the Affordable Care Act: A Physicians’ Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform,” which is displayed below. Children’s Health is proud to become the first pediatric health system in the country to offer Amazon Lockers, self-service kiosks that allow you to pick up your Amazon packages when and where you need them most – 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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