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Single Payer is alive and well in Maryland!
Come hear economist Gerald Friedman, Ph.D. speak on his economic impact study for the Health Security Act.
Tuesday, February 28 @ 7 p.m.
Event is free and open to the public
Episcopal Diocese of Maryland
4 E. University Parkway, Baltimore, MD
Refreshments will be offered before the event at 6:30 p.m. Call 410-889-0329 for more information.
Click here for more information and to download a flyer for the event.
Stressed Out by Private Health Insurance? A Clinical Diagnosis
Dr. Quentin Young, national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program, writes "Dr. Carol Paris, a distinguished psychiatrist and a valued colleague in the campaign for single-payer national health insurance, an improved Medicare for all, has written an elegant parody that is really quite serious: the mental impact of private, for-profit insurance companies on our nation's patients and providers/physicians."
Click here to read "Diagnostic Criteria for Private Insurance Induced Stress Disorder — PIISD"
Single Payer update from MD PNHP
Maryland PNHP would like to provide you with an update and information about upcoming events.
With passage of federal health legislation, our work has now shifted to a few areas:
1. Education about the continued need for health care reform through Grand Rounds and community events.
2. Increasing membership in Maryland PNHP including more student involvement.
3. Building relationships with members of Congress to educate them about the benefits of Single Payer.
4. Education about the National Commission for Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and possible recommendations to weaken our social insurance programs.
5. Development and implementation of a strategy to pass the Maryland Health Security Act.
6. Fundraising to support our work.
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Improve and strengthen Medicare by expanding it to all
The following text is the testimony that Dr. Margaret Flowers presented to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform at its June 30 hearing in Washington. Dr. Flowers is congressional fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program and Chair of the Maryland chapter.
I am Dr. Margaret Flowers and I am here today on behalf of Physicians for a National Health Program, the leading physician research, education and advocacy organization in support of a truly universal single-payer health system in the United States. I will speak specifically about the contribution of health care costs to our national deficit and the evidence-based remedy to control these costs.
Doctors protest exclusion of single-payer at Senate Finance Committee
Doctors and other advocates of a national single-payer health system - also known as an improved Medicare for All - directly confronted senators at a Senate Finance Committee “roundtable” on health reform today.
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Donate to the Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign
The Maryland chapter of PNHP in collaboration with Healthcare-Now! of Maryland is starting a new campaign to push for a single-payer healthcare system in Maryland. As part of our effort, we intend to hire a full-time grassroots organizer. That persons job will be to build at the grassroots. We need your help to finance the position.
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Single-payer health care pushed for Maryland
By Larry Carson, The Baltimore Sun
The idea of a single-payer health care system was lost in the debate over the much-amended national health care reform passed by Congress last year, but three Howard County delegates are co-sponsors of legislation in this year’s General Assembly that seeks to bring the idea to fruition in the Free State.
PRESS RELEASE:
‘Don’t repeal health law – go beyond it to single-payer Medicare for all’: doctor’s group
A nationwide organization of doctors who favor a single-payer health care system 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.
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The Maryland Health Security Act
Single-Payer Healthcare Coming to Minnesota and Maryland
Click here to learn more the Maryland Health Security Act (HB 1186)
Read an assessment of the cost and savings under the Health Security Act by Brigitte Marti
National Legislation
A comparison of national single-payer bills H.R. 676 and S. 703
Get Active
MD PNHP is looking for speakers and writers to join this important cause.
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Where Is My National Health Insurance Card?
Watch PNHP NY Metro's video about single-Payer
Speakers Bureau
PNHP Maryland now has a speaker's bureau and we are available for grand rounds, conferences and meeting with faith and community groups to talk about single payer and health care reform. If you are intrested in arranging a speaker, please email conversationcoalition@gmail.com.
PNHP Members in the news
Diagnostic Criteria for PIISD – Private Insurance Induced Stress Disorder
By Carol A. Paris, MD | Southern Maryland Newspapers
Diagnostic Criteria for PIISD – Private Insurance Induced Stress Disorder
By Carol A. Paris, MD | Psychiatric Time
The next step for reform
By James Burdick | Baltimore Sun
Health care changes start soon; major ones later
By Michael A. Sawyers | Cumberland Times-News
Harris offers wrong fix for health care
By Dr. Taro J. Adachi | Baltimore Sun
'Congress doesn't know we've been arrested'
By JAY FRIESS | South Maryland News
Health care for all, but how?
By John McVey | The Journal (WV)
Universal health care advocated
By RICHARD F. BELISLE | The Herald-Mail
HealthCare-Now! Maryland
Formerly Maryland Universal Health Care Network
www.mdsinglepayer.org