Physicians for a National Health Program

Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) is an advocacy organization of some 20,000 American physicians, medical students, and health professionals co-founded in 1987 by David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler that supports a single-payer (Canadian-style) system of universal national health insurance. The group is best known for its influential proposals for national health insurance, which have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA.

Physicians for a National Health Program

Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) is an advocacy organization of some 20,000 American physicians, medical students, and health professionals co-founded in 1987 by David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler that supports a single-payer (Canadian-style) system of universal national health insurance. The group is best known for its influential proposals for national health insurance, which have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA.