Mad as Hell Doctors: Advocating For Single-Payer Health Care

Dr. Samuel Metz, an anesthesiologist from Willamette Valley, Ore., is a member of Mad as Hell Doctors and an advocate for a single-payer health-care system. Mad As Hell Doctors is the creation of two Oregon single-payer advocates, Adam Klugman and Gary Jelinek. Frustrated with their efforts to get single-payer health care into the public eye, they envisioned a small group of motivated physicians who would go beyond advocacy and create a movement that would command attention. That movement began with a tour across the country to raise consciousness of our health care crisis and take the single payer message to Washington DC. This tour coincided with Congressional debates on what became the Affordable Care Act. We learned of the group and asked Dr. Metz to do this e-mail interview.

1. Tell us what MAHD has done since its formation.

Mad As Hell Doctors repeated their transcontinental adventure with several smaller tours in California and Oregon. As a consequence, both states expanded their existing networks of health care advocates to encourage activists to lobby their legislators for action...