Ida Hellander, executive director of Physicians for a National Health Program, emailed us recently with praise for Paying More, Getting Less, from our May/June issue. She called the article "very clear and compelling. It will be very, very useful to all of us in the single payer movement... Thanks again for publishing this article. I've wanted something like this for many years!"
In fact, a solid majority of U.S. doctors now support a single-payer system, as reported in a web-only piece posted to the American Prospect website on Tuesday:
The Doctors' Revolt
Doctors, the traditional advocates for the medical status quo, are increasingly in favor of major reforms to the U.S. health-care system.
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