Reply #24: PNHP was founded by physicians in the 1980's to advocate for

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a not for profit, single-payer system similar to the Canadian model.

They have not compromised on their position.

In fact this is what Dr. McCanne of PNHP said about the original Hacker proposal back in 2007...


http://www.ourfuture.org/files/documents/evolution-of-the-healthcare-debate.pdf

...Also, Dr. Don McCanne of Physicians for a National Health Program offers sincere praise, concluding:

“Jacob Hacker’s proposal is a very welcome addition at a time that all options should be on the table. It is such a compelling model that it may shove all others off of the table - except single payer - then we can get down to a serious discussion about reform that really works.”

The current proposals do not resemble the original plan, they would not have near the number of enrollees that were envisioned, Howard Dean even argued that only 5-10 million would be enrolled in the public plan by 2019.

And again they never attacked Dean for promoting the public plan, they attacked him for saying the public option was just like single-payer and also for saying the public plan would be like Medicare.

Medicare does not have to compete with private plans, Dean knows this and continues to misrepresent the proposals and confuse the issue.