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CAHI Blasts PNHP's Universal Health Care Proposal; Single-Payer System Would Only Increase America's Health Care Woes
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August 13, 2003
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In today's Journal of
the American Medical Association, the Physicians for a National
Health Program (PNHP) unveiled a proposal to enact a national single-
payer health care system. In other words, CAHI believes, they want
to turn this country's health care marketplace into Canada's -- a
failed experiment in socialized medicine (a.k.a. universal health
care).
"I can understand their desire to provide health care for
everyone, that's why they keep proposing this idea." stated CAHI
Director Dr. Merrill Matthews. "What I can't understand is why these
doctors think a single-payer system achieves that goal. Every country
that has enacted a ...