HealthExec January 20, 2020
The American College of Physicians, which represents 159,000 internists in the U.S., has endorsed a single-payer American healthcare system. Medicare for all is at the center of the American healthcare debate as a handful of Democratic presidential candidates have adopted it as part of their platforms.
The association published a paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine and an open letter signed by 2,000 physicians prescribing a Medicare-for-all system. The Health and Public Policy Committee of the ACP reviewed studies, reports and surveys on healthcare coverage to come up with their position and outline a call to action and vision statements in the paper.
ACP found current healthcare spending is high and unsustainable, with too many Americans uninsured or underinsured....
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