Dr. Woolhander is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard and Co-Director of the Harvard Medical School General Internal Medicine Fellowship program. She is also a co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program.
In last week's public address, President Obama addressed the need for healthcare reform. Watch that video below.
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Every single entity involved in healthcare should sign a hippocratic oath. If the industry really cared about the patients we would have none of the runaway costs that have stripped the value from our health dollars.
The AMA and PNHP are not the only organizations representing doctors. I am a member of the National Physicians Alliance, which represents 20,000 progressive doctors across the country who support quality, affordable health care for all. We believe in a pragmatic middle ground that puts patients before profits. We strongly support a public health insurance option as a guarantee of keeping private insurers honest and competitive. We believe in real choice for our patients.
One of the primary savings arising from state sponsored universal health care is the ability for the state to negotiate directly with drug companies for the purchase of prescription drugs.
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