Doctors endorse single-payer

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Philadelphia Inquirer, December 4, 2007

The American College of Physicians has officially announced its endorsement of a single-payer healthcare system. the organization, however, stopped short of saying that a single-payer system like Medicare, in which the government would get and pay most bills, is the best way to achieve universal coverage.

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