KevinMD February 27, 2019
Thirteen years ago, as a student in New York City, I marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to implore my colleagues to fight for universal health care. That day, I enunciated what has become my personal mission by saying, “We need universal coverage that is portable. We need universal coverage that is comprehensive. We need universal coverage that ensures equal access to care. Most importantly, we need you — to lead the fight, to force the issue, to bring to America a universal health care system where everybody is in, and nobody is left out.” For America to achieve universal health care physicians must lead the charge.
Our fragmented health care system — a mixture of socialized medicine, social insurance, managed...