Physicians for a National Health Program

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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), is an advocacy organization of some 14,000 American physicians, medical students, and health professionals who support a single-payer system of national health insurance.

The group is best known for its influential proposals for national health insurance, which have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine^[1] and the Journal of the American Medical Association^[2].

The group is also known for its members' substantial contributions to scientific research on the uninsured, health system economics and international health systems. Members such as Drs. David Himmelstein, Stephanie Woolhandler, Marcia Angell and Arnold Relman have contributed articles to major peer-reviewed journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine (of which Angell and Relman are former editors-in-chief), the Journal of the American Medical Association and Health Affairs.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

• Health care reform
• List of healthcare reform advocacy groups in the United States
• National Physicians Alliance
• Single-payer health care
• United States National Health Insurance Act
• Universal health care

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Physicians for a National Health Program official website
• Single-Payer National Health Insurance Resources
• Single-Payer National Health Insurance FAQ