Equitable, Affordable Health Care for All, Without Health Disparities

Overview

The NPA seeks to mobilize physicians locally and nationally in the fight for a just, equitable, caring, and effective health care system.  In the United States, formidable barriers currently stand between patients and ideal medical care.  Doctors are uniquely positioned to lead in the work of reform-reform that will benefit patients and doctors alike.  The NPA embraces the principles for health care reform advanced by the Institute of Medicine:

 

1. Health care coverage should be universal.
2. Health care coverage should be continuous.
3. Health care coverage should be affordable to individuals and families.
4. The health insurance strategy should be affordable and sustainable for society.
5. Health insurance should enhance health and well-being by promoting access to high-quality care that is effective, efficient, safe, timely, patient-centered, and equitable.

Inspired by those who have led the way in fighting for high quality, affordable health care for all, the NPA offers America's 800,000 physicians a home from which to develop and stage a coordinated and effective campaign for reform.

Report Card of the Presidential Candidates' Health Care Plans

 

Our Position on Secure Health Care for All

 

Fighting High Deductible, High Co-Pay Insurance  

 

Eliminating Health Disparities

 

Protecting Medicaid