Cost control, universal care impossible without single-payer health system: Harvard physician | Physicians for a National Health Program

Cost control, universal care impossible without single-payer health system: Harvard physician | Physicians for a National Health Program
"Dr. David Himmelstein, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a primary care doctor at Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., told the House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions that only a major overhaul of the existing system, one which replaces the wasteful, for-profit, private insurance industry with a publicly financed, single-payer program similar to Medicare, can rein in costs while guaranteeing universal, comprehensive coverage."