BREAKING: The American College of Physicians has released a position paper endorsing #SinglePayer #MedicareForAll as a viable fix for our nation’s "inefficient, unaffordable, unsustainable, and inaccessible" health care financing system. bit.ly/2tCMmLZ via @AnnalsofIM
PNHP co-founders Drs. @swoolhandler & David Himmelstein applauded this position in an accompanying editorial (and argued against the "public choice" model that ACP also endorsed). bit.ly/2TGSJZq via @AnnalsofIM
"For a century, most U.S. medical organizations opposed national health insurance. The endorsement by the @ACPinternists of #SinglePayer reform marks a sea change from this unfortunate tradition." - PNHP co-founders Drs. @swoolhandler & Himmelstein
Today's endorsement is historically significant. @ACPinternists is the largest medical specialty society and second-largest physician group in the U.S., representing 159,000 internists.
There was a time when commercial insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, for-profit hospitals, and other profiteers could count on physician organizations to oppose #SinglePayer. That time is rapidly coming to a close. #MedicareForAll
