Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/09/2023
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
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Single Payer Is Necessary but Not Sufficient
with Dr. Steffie Woolhandler
Single-payer advocates have long called for universal national health insurance that would reform the financing of medical care in the U.S.A. However, the increasing corporate ownership of hospitals, doctors’ practices, and other health providers mandates additional reform to ensure that patients’ needs, rather than the search for profit, drive our healthcare system.
About Dr. Woolhandler
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., MPH, is a Distinguished Professor at The City University of New York’s Hunter College, a primary-care doctor in the South Bronx, and a Lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she was formerly Professor of Medicine.
A native of Louisiana, she graduated from LSU Medical School in New Orleans and completed an internal medicine residency at Cambridge Hospital and a research fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Harvard. During her stint as a Robert Woods Johnson Health Policy Fellow at the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine), she worked with Senator Paul Wellstone and then-Representative Bernie Sanders.
She has published more than 150 journal articles, reviews, chapters and books on health policy and is a leading advocate of nonprofit national health insurance for the United States. Among her influential scholarly articles are studies on patient dumping (which led to a federal ban on that practice, medical bankruptcy (co-authored with Elizabeth Warren), waste in hospitals and in medicine more generally, the lethality of being uninsured, and proposals for single-payer health reform.
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