November 2025

The Healthcare System Is Broken

Our nation is sick, our patients are suffering, and physicians feel trapped. Our nation’s health care system costs too much, excludes too many, and is unnecessarily complex. It is more often designed to maximize profit than to meet patient needs and address the social determinants of health.

 

Fixing this deeply flawed system needs the sustained commitment of socially conscious physicians and medical students, driven by our values:

 

Health Care is a Human Right
Every person deserves access to high-quality, affordable, and equitable health care—regardless of income, race, immigration status, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or zip code.

 

Evidence-Based Medicine
Science, data, and clinical expertise must guide health policy, public health decisions, and medical practice.

 

Equity and Justice
Achieving health equity requires dismantling structural racism, gender inequality, and other systemic barriers that perpetuate health disparities.

 

Physician and Trainee Advocacy
Health professionals have both the privilege and responsibility to advocate for patients and influence policies that affect health outcomes.

 

Collaboration and Partnership
Meaningful change happens when patients, clinicians, policymakers, and advocates work together toward shared goals of health, equity, and justice.

 

This November, as we gather with gratitude for what sustains us, let’s also renew our determination to heal what’s broken. The fight for equitable, evidence-based, and compassionate care is far from over—but together, we can move from frustration to transformation. Join Doctors for America in making health and justice a reality for every person in our nation.

 

In Solidarity,

Executive Director

Reproductive care conversations can be complex and personal. Join our two part training to learn how to approach them with openness, empathy, and compassion—building skills to listen, understand, and engage with care. It is time to reframe conversations around abortion.

Part 1 (Asynchronous Option)

Under the theme Making Good Trouble, this convening brings together physicians, medical trainees, advocates, and allies who are ready to speak up and fight back. Our diverse experiences and trusted voices are needed now more than ever to defend evidence-based care, protect our patients, and uphold the values at the heart of medical professionalism.

 

Join us in Washington, D.C., June 6–8, 2026, for a powerful weekend of skill-building, collaboration, and inspiration. Together, we’ll ensure that the voice of medicine rises above the noise— by Making Good Trouble where it matters most.

Members of Congress reached out to DFA to hear from you — the physicians and trainees who know what’s really at stake if enhanced ACA tax credits expire and cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and the ACA move forward. These decisions aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet — they determine whether patients can afford the care they need.

 

Your stories have power. They cut through the noise and remind lawmakers that health policy is personal.

 

📣 Share your story today! Tell us how access to affordable coverage impacts your patients — or your ability to provide care.
➡️ Submit your story or email info@drsforamerica.org.

Let’s make sure Congress keeps patients, not politics, at the center of care.

H.R.1 is the biggest cut to healthcare in U. S. history. The result: higher costs, worse coverage, strained care systems, and a public health crisis in the making. Between gutting Medicaid, CHIP, and ACA cuts, H.R.1 kicks 15 million Americans off of their health insurance and more than doubles premium costs for 22 million people.

 

Are you a healthcare professional who feels betrayed by H.R.1 and wants to take action to protect your patients? Join Civic Health Alliance and Doctors for America for a webinar that will evaluate how healthcare practitioners can use their voices to increase awareness, advocate for change, and hold lawmakers accountable for the healthcare crisis.