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Call for single-payer system in U.S., insuring all Americans

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  • Medical students rallied on Capitol Hill Thursday, March, 12, 2009, for improved health care on a nationwide and global scale. After the rally, many students lobbied members of the House and Senate for faster action on scholarship funding, affordable primary care to all Americans, and medical treatment for countries in need. (Kim Kweder/The Washington Times)
  • Medical students rallied on Capitol Hill Thursday, March, 12, 2009, for improved health care on a nationwide and global scale. After the rally, many students lobbied members of the House and Senate for faster action on scholarship funding, affordable primary care to all Americans, and medical treatment for countries in need. (Kim Kweder/The Washington Times)

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    By Kimberly Kweder

    More than 300 medical students rallied on Capitol Hill on Thursday afternoon calling on Congress for a greater emphasis on primary-care physicians, for more medical assistance to poor people around the globe, and for a single-payer U.S. health-care system.

    "Our health care system is failing. So many people are uninsured or underinsured," said Rebecca Bak, a third-year student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

    "Everybody in! Nobody out!" chanted Ms. Bak and other students.

    "The rally really excites the students. They are the next generation of medical physicians. You really need a strong primary care work force," AMSA spokeswoman Kim Cunningham said before the rally's march down Pennsylvania Avenue.

    "We are definitely for a single-pay system, but that's not the single purpose of the rally," Ms. Cunningham said.

    Dressed in white lab coats and armed with signs, the march started at the Navy Memorial-Archives subway stop and ending at the west side of the Capitol at Third Street Northwest. On the Capitol Hill lawn, the marchers joined with another group from a charter bus for speeches and then everyone dispersed to lobby lawmakers, mostly in the House and Senate offices spread around Capitol Hill.

    The rally, led by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), was aimed at boosting federal spending on the National Health Care Service Corps and the worldwide health-care work force. Two bills are being written to address those matters — sponsored by Sen. Bernard Sanders, Vermont independent, and Rep. James E. Clyburn, South Carolina Democrat.

    Each year, students rely upon debt relief and scholarships for on-the-field experience. The National Health Care Service Corps gives scholarships for students to practice in a rural setting for two years after graduation.

    Ryan Van Ramshorst, a third-year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, however, said a federal funding lapse over the past years has burdened the program's potential.

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