The health care system in the US is ranked 37th overall in the world even though it spends almost double per capita of what other industrialized countries spend. 47 million are not insured and almost 2 million filers and their dependents per year claim medical bankruptcy. The Real News Network spoke to Dr. Steffie Woolhandler […]
Author Archives: Steffie Woolhandler and Don McCanne
Dr. Steffie Woolhandler is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard and co-director of the Harvard Medical School General Internal Medicine
Fellowship program. She worked in 1990-91 as a Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation health policy fellow at the Institute of Medicine and the
U.S. Congress. She is a co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and a current Board member. PNHP is a non-profit research and education
organization of 15,000 physicians, medical students and health professionals
who advocate for single-payer national health insurance. She has published
widely and is the co-author of: National Health Care Book: A Source Guide
for Advocates and Bleeding the Patient Dry: The Consequences of Corporate
Healthcare .
Dr. Don McCanne served as president of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) for two terms and is currently a Senior Health Policy Fellow.
PNHP is a widely recognized non-profit research and education organization
that represents over 15,000 doctors across the US who advocate for a
single-payer national health insurance plan. Dr. McCanne also writes a daily
health policy update online.
