[Peace-discuss] Fw: CLNews: Single-payer advocate on Colbert Report Tuesday night

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Dear friends,

On Tuesday, July 21, at 11:30 pm EDT, watch Dr. Aaron Carroll talk about 
single-payer health reform on The Colbert Report, the Emmy award-winning 
satirical television program on Comedy Central.

Dr. Carroll is a board member of Physicians for a National Health 
Program (www.pnhp.org), an organization of 16,000 physicians, medical 
students and health professionals who support single-payer national 
health insurance.

The episode with Dr. Carroll will also be available online about 24 
hours after the initial broadcast at 
www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/index.jhtml (Episode # 
is 5097). It will be rebroadcast on the Comedy Central network on 
Wednesday, July 22, at 2 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 2 p.m., and 8:30 p.m.

Dr. Carroll, who is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the 
Children’s Health Services Research Program at the Indiana University 
School of Medicine, published a study last year showing 59 percent of 
U.S. physicians now support national health insurance, a jump of 10 
percentage points from just five years earlier.

In an opinion piece, Dr. Carroll writes: “There are now more uninsured 
people in the United States than at any time since the passage of 
Medicare and Medicaid in the mid-1960s. … These numbers represent 
extraordinary suffering, unnecessary disability and premature deaths — 
at least 18,000 deaths per year, according to the Institute of Medicine. …

“There is one sure-fire way to make these numbers come down. It worked 
for seniors in the 1960s and it still works for them today. You may hear 
politicians demonizing government-run health insurance, but you will 
hear none run on a platform of eradicating Medicare; nor will any turn 
it down for themselves when they turn 65. Call it whatever you want: 
National health insurance, Medicare-for-all, ‘single payer’ or 
socialized health insurance; it doesn’t matter. Research shows that 
Medicare-for-all could save enough on administrative waste (over $350 
billion) to cover all the 47 million uninsured and improve coverage for 
everyone else. A single-payer national health insurance system is the 
only way to drop the number of people lacking health insurance to zero.”

Rep. John Conyers Jr. has introduced a bill in the House, H.R. 676, that 
would implement a single-payer system; the bill now has 85 co-sponsors. 
Recently Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a single-payer bill in the U.S. 
Senate, S. 703.

Watch Dr. Carroll on The Colbert Report!

Physicians for a National Health Program
29 E. Madison St., Suite 602
Chicago IL 60602
(312) 782-6006
www.pnhp.org

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