That's right, as far back as 1999, the majority of medical academia, Deans, department chairs, residency training directors, physician faculty at medical schools, resident physicians, and medical students, favored single payer.
The nations best and brightest have felt all along that single payer is the way to go.
"We know physicians support single-payer national health insurance because of the increasing numbers of medical associations and prominent physicians that are endorsing it," said Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard.
They include: The D.C. branch of the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA), the National Medical Association (NMA), the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the American Public Health Association (APHA), the Islamic Medical Association (IMA), the American Association of Community Psychiatrists (AACP), the American Family Therapy Association, and others. The Maryland and Massachusetts branches of the AMA are studying single payer, and the American College of Surgeons' Dr. David Murray testified before Congress in 1994 that single payer would "probably provide the best assurance that patients would be able to seek care from any doctor of their choice."
And yet, 10 years later, 60 Dems in the Senate, A Dem president and single payer is not being given a seat at the table? The best and brightest, that's who we should be turning to. Instead, we're stuck watching helplessly as our Dem unrepresentatives sell out to the insurance lobby.
We need to take back our party!
