Physicians for a National Health Program

I'm your host, Brenda Gazar.

Our guest is Dr. Diljeet Singh, a gynecologic oncologist, president of Physicians for a National Health Program, and principal investigator of its March 2026 report on moral injury.

Among more than 1,200 physicians surveyed, 68% reported moderate or severe distress over being unable to provide the best possible care.

More than one in four had already left a job because of moral distress.

If there's anything to center it around, it's the symptom part of things, right? That moral distress and moral injury among health professionals is a symptom.

It's a symptom of a diseased healthcare system.

Dr. Diljeet Singh is a gynecologic oncologist and president of Physicians for a National Health Program.

You can read the organization's report, Moral Injury in Medicine, The Human Costs of Practicing in a Profit-Driven System at pnhp.org. Join us next time when we speak to Dr. Singh about how much public opinion has shifted on

I'm Lucy May.

Joining me now to discuss all of this are chair of the Physicians for a National Health Program Ohio chapter, and retired pediatrician, Dr. Phil Lichtenstein, the Center for Community Solutions Director of Public Policy, Tara Britton, and Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati Managing Attorney, Regina Campbell.

Thank you all for being here.

I appreciate it.

I'm Lucy May.

We're back with our conversation about understanding Medicaid work requirements.

My guests are Chair of the Physicians for a National Health Program, Ohio Chapter, and retired pediatrician, Dr. Phil Lichtenstein, Center for Community Solutions Director of Public Policy, Tara Britton, and Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati Managing Attorney, Regina Campbell, do you have questions about the requirements or are you insured through Medicaid? We'd like to hear from you.

Call or text 513-419-7100 or you can email talk at wvxu.org. Regina, we were talking about medical frailty before the break and I know there was something you wanted to add once we got back.

How many deaths per year is unknown because these stats aren't tracked.

The organization Physicians for a National Health Program put out an interesting blog on their online publication, The Health Justice Monitor, HJM.

But estimated in 2021, quote, the U.S. excess mortality age is 20 to 64.

So excess mortality is a statistic where they look at a specific age range and look at rates of death across the health care system that, like, can't be attributed to anything that's, like, a common condition in the United States.

Prior to joining the UNC faculty, he worked as clinical director of community health centers in Central North Carolina and has lived and worked in Tanzania, Laos, and Malawi.

He is a member of the National Board of Directors for Physicians for a National Health Program.

Hi, I'm Bryan.

I'm excited to be here.

You can find us on the IDSA website.

We're the Single Payer Interest Group.

I'm also a member of an organization called Physicians for a National Health Program, which is the largest physicians advocacy group dedicated really exclusively to achieving single payer healthcare.

We have about 35, 40,000 of us now, and growing all the time.