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Doctors Back Single Payer
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
22 Aug 2017
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A new survey shows 56 percent of U.S. doctors now favor establishment of a single payer healthcare system. Only a minority of physicians opted for single payer back in 2008. Dr. Margaret Flowers, of Popular Resistance, said other studies have shown even greater support among physicians. “What all this reflects,” said Flowers, “is that the current healthcare non-system is driving health professionals to search for an alternative that would actually allow them to focus on their patients’ needs and not the ‘business of medicine.’”

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