Doctors call for single-payer health reform, cite need to move beyond Affordable Care Act

(Physicians for a National Health Program) In a dramatic show of physician support for deeper health reform -- and for making a decisive break with the private insurance model of financing medical care -- 2,231 physicians are calling for a publicly financed, single-payer national health program that would cover all Americans for all medically necessary care. The proposal, drafted by a panel of 39 leading physicians, is linked to an editorial titled 'Moving Forward from the Affordable Care Act to...