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A physician’s decades-long fight for “Medicare for all”
In 1968, a friend of Dr. Alec Pruchnicki returned from study abroad with a revelation: in Italy, healthcare doesn’t require insurance. "They don't ask how you're going to pay”, Pruchnicki’s friend told him, “they just take care of you." That moment inspired Pruchnicki’s decades-long advocacy to bring that very system to the United States. Last month, Pruchnicki was one of three honorees named a "Single Payer Champion" by the New York Metro chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), at the group's annual benefit in Greenwich Village.