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Public Citizen's Health Research Group endorses "high-quality health care" as a right.

1972

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Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group within Public Citizen, makes a statement advocating for the right to health care to physicians at a conference in 1972. For the next several decades, Dr. Wolfe will continue to make public statements in favor of universal single-payer healthcare in the U.S.