{"id":603,"date":"2009-05-20T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2009-05-20T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T20:15:00","slug":"pnhp-good-links-in-letter-for-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"PNHP : Good links in letter for members"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear PNHP<\/a> Colleagues,<\/p>\n

This Friday evening (May 22) the Bill Moyers Journal on PBS at 9 p.m. EDT<\/a> will feature a discussion with Dr. David Himmelstein, co-founder of PNHP, and other single-payer advocates, asking the question “why isn’t a single-payer plan on the table in Washington?”<\/p>\n

This important media event is emblematic of a recent surge in media interest in the single-payer alternative (see below) – a surge in large part fueled by the bold and courageous acts of civil disobedience undertaken by PNHP members and others before the Senate Finance Committee earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Yesterday the conservative editorial board of the Times-Union in Albany, N.Y., made an impassioned appeal<\/a> to Congress to put single payer on the table.<\/p>\n

Dr. Margaret Flowers, one of the first persons arrested by the committee for speaking up for single payer, explains why she did so in this op-ed<\/a> in the Baltimore Sun. She has given radio and newspaper interviews almost every day since her arrest.<\/p>\n

Others who took part in the D.C. actions have been profiled in the media, too: see, for example, these portraits of Dr. Judy Dasovich<\/a> and Dr. Carol Paris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr. Paul DeMarco, writing<\/a> in the Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald Journal, explains why, as a conservative, he supports single payer and the principle of mutual aid. (His op-ed ran directly alongside an opposing view by Sen. James DeMint, R-S.C.).<\/p>\n

In their May 16 letter<\/a> to The New York Times, Drs. Arnold Relman and Marcia Angell, past editors of the New England Journal of Medicine, explain how “We don’t need more money; we need a new system.” In another recent NYT letters column, Dr. Laura Boylan writes<\/a>, “As long as the logic of our system is set by a huge for-profit multi-payer bureaucracy, we will continue to get low value on the health care dollar.”<\/p>\n

This is just the tip of the iceberg. For example, Dr. Himmelstein was on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show<\/a> Monday, along with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and others.
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