https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puk4JP_oaW0 Despite the fact the US continues to rank poorly in worldwide health care standards, John McCain like many, maintains that the United States health care is the best in the world. The Real News Network spoke to Steven Lewis, health policy and research consultant from Canada, Dr. Don McCanne of Physicians for a National […]
Author Archives: Steven Lewis, Don McCanne and Steffie Woolhandler
Steven Lewis is a health policy and research consultant in Saskatoon, and an adjunct professor of Health Policy at the University of Calgary and Simon
Fraser University. Previously, he headed a health research granting agency
and spent 7 years as CEO of the Health Services Utilization and Research
Commission in Saskatchewan .
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.
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 .