Physicians for a National Health Program is an advocacy organization of some 18,000 American physicians, medical students, and health professionals co-founded in 1987 by David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler that supports a single-payer system of ...

Overall, 17.4% of adults experienced cost burdens and 9.9% experienced catastrophic cost burdens (CCBs) over a four-year period from 2018–2022, according to a study published online Dec. 22 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Already having a high rate of in-work ...

Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and Flint residents have been awarded $700,000 in one of three competitive coordinating center grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through its Health Equity Research for Action program.

Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein are associate professors at Harvard Medical School. They co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program, a nonprofit research and education organization of 16,000 physicians, medical students and health ...

A top Democrat slammed the Trump administration late Wednesday for creating “uncertainty and confusion” in cutting thousands of substance abuse and mental health grants and then abruptly reversing course.