Described as "a leading advocacy group" by the New York Times, the People’s Medical Society has been an important advisor to the Health Care Financing Administration on Medicare issues and an important health resource for many major news organizations, including the Wall Street Journal and U.S. News & World Report.

Founded on the premise that the existing medical and health care system is too expensive, too impersonal and too unwilling to concentrate on preventive medicine and foster an equal partnership basis between consumer and physician, the People's Medical Society has these goals:

• To put previously unavailable information into the hands of ordinary people so that they can make informed decisions about their own health care.
• To publish information designed to make every American a smart health care consumer.
• To investigate and expose incidents of arrogance, incompetence and greed in organized medicine.
• To protect the freedom to choose alternative providers of health care services.
• To make the prevention of disease the top priority of American medicine.
• To work toward creating an American health care system that is affordable, compassionate and centered around the needs of people.

Says the Knight-Ridder News Service, "Doctors have the American Medical Association to look after their interests. Hospitals have the American Hospital Association. Now, consumers have the People’s Medical Society."

The People's Medical Society has been featured on "Good Morning America," "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Geraldo!" and in the New York Times, Money and USA Today. If you are interested in doing a story about us or reviewing one of our publications, please call 610-770-1670 or e-mail media@peoplesmed.org.

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