Single-Payer Advocates Seek to Reverse Doctors’ Lobby Opposition

About a decade ago Phillip Verhoef left the American Medical Association because it wouldn’t back efforts to replace the nation’s private health insurance system with a public one. He was frustrated the group focused more on doctors’ pay than what saw as a flawed health system.

Verhoef, assistant professor of medicine and an intensivist at the University of Chicago, has spent the years since selling the idea of “Medicare for All” to medical students, fellow doctors, elected officials and anyone who will listen. He’s met with medical student organizations to explain how it might work and their role in changing ...