Death panels for all.
Via WaPo:
More than 2,000 physicians announced their support Thursday for a single-payer national health care system, unveiling a proposal drafted by doctors that appears to resonate with Bernie Sanders’ call for “Medicare for All.”
In an editorial and paper published in the American Journal of Public Health on Thursday, the doctors call out the “persistent shortcomings of the current health care system.” They warn about the risks of continuing along the path laid out by the Affordable Care Act: “down this road, millions of Americans remain uninsured, underinsurance grows, costs rise, and inefficiency and the search for profits are abetted.”
The future of health reform has been widely discussed in the presidential campaign, and for years health reform has sparked a raging and divisive political debate among politicians. The proposal, however, is endorsed by hundreds of physicians who have an inside view of the effects of the law on patients and medical care. It grew out of discussions in late 2014, when a small group of physicians began to assess the effects of health reform and found it coming up short.
“Those discussions led us to feel that we needed to put out in public, first of all, a clear statement that problems haven’t been solved,” said David Himmelstein, an internist who practices in the South Bronx and a professor at the City University of New York School of Public Health at Hunter College.
Himmelstein and his colleagues call the right to medical care “a dream deferred,” despite health reform.