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 ...

While Medicare and Medicaid have been an important part of the American health care system for six decades now, the programs still receive a certain amount of political scrutiny. The agency that ...

In 1946, just seven months into his administration, President Harry Truman proposed a sweeping national health insurance program. In terms of its design and scope, it was remarkably similar to the ...