Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) is a U.S. advocacy organization of physicians, medical students, and other health professionals dedicated to achieving universal, comprehensive single-payer national health insurance, often described as Medicare for All.
Single-payer national health insurance; Medicare for All; publicly funded and publicly administered health care; health care access and affordability; opposition to for-profit control of the health system; broader health justice and social justice policy
Primarily supported by members’ dues and individual contributions, with grants from progressive foundations; it states that it accepts no funding from pharmaceutical companies, private insurers, or other for-profit entities.
Local PNHP chapters nationwide; allied single-payer and health justice advocates; prominent affiliated figures have included physician leaders such as Quentin Young and David Scheiner
Non-profit advocacy organization