Sign Petition Against Inadequate Massachusetts Health Coverage!

Dear Supporter of Health Care Justice - The recently enacted health reform in Massachusetts is set to compel uninsured residents to purchase their own health insurance starting this summer, or face stiff penalties. However, the state is offering plans with skimpy coverage and little real health security for residents to satisfy this requirement. Join health care providers across the state in opposing these inadequate insurance plans and calling for comprehensive, single-payer reform.

We invite you to read and sign your name to this online petition at:

www.pnhp.org/MApetition.php »

Please also lend your support to the petition by copying this text and emailing it to at least ten of your friends and colleagues!

Sincerely,

Marcia Angell, MD
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School, Former Editor-in-Chief, NEJM
Simon Ahtaridis, MD
Chief Medical Resident, Cambridge Hospital
David Himmelstein, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Co-Founder, PNHP
Michael Hochman, MD
Medicine Resident, Cambridge Hospital
Susanne King, MD
Private Practice Physician, Berkshires
Bernard Lown, MD
Professor Emeritus, Harvard School of Public Health, Nobel Laureate
Arnold Relman, MD
Professor Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, Former Editor-in-Chief, NEJM
Julius Richmond, MD
Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, Former U.S. Surgeon General
Jeffrey Scavron, MD
Medical Director, Brightwood Health Center
Julie Silverhart, MD
Geriatrics Fellow, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Steffie Woolhandler, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Co-Founder, PNHP
Andrew Wilper, MD
Medicine Fellow, Harvard Medical School

Feel free to contact Massachusetts Physicians for a National Health Program with any questions regarding the new health reform law, or the petition opposing high cost-sharing health plans. We can be reached at 617.723.7001 or by email at director@masscare.org.