- Protected health care for the over 1.2 million low-income minority patients by saving 6 hospitals that treat the poor from closure.
- Overturned over 1,325 individual insurance claim denials for under-insured patients.
- Mobilized community campaigns to preserve treatment for heart attack, stroke, trauma, cancer care, and mental health care for over 750,000 patients across a dozen counties in rural and other low-income communities in California.
- Stopped the malicious prosecution of 36 individual physicians who were outspoken in their demands for the resources to be allocated to care for low-income patients.
- Supported physician groups across 19 states serving underserved and disenfranchised communities in their efforts to combat a wide variety of unethical healthcare denials.
- Exposed how wealthy “non-profit” hospital chains refused to provide charity care commensurate with their multi-million dollar tax breaks, resulting in changes in state policy mandating transparency of charitable healthcare.
We have done this on a completely volunteer run basis for over 40 years. As we neither accept nor seek government funding, or corporate funding with strings attached, we are able to respond immediately to any attacks on healthcare brought to our attention by the vast network of medical experts. They do the research and provide a synopsis of the history of the problem which our staff then compares with similar cases to develop a list of questions and preliminary actions for those experiencing the problem. We work off the principle that if we ensure that the most disadvantaged are able to access uniformly high quality medical care, then, by default, the rest of us will have no less.
We support the Sustainable Development Goals
Even though the U.S. is rejecting and denouncing the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), we at Physicians Organizing Committee will continue to support the SDGs. In addition to ending poverty and hunger, eliminating economic inequality, and reversing climate change; the health aspects of the SDGs reflect what we have been battling against in the medical realm since 1982.
On March 4th, 2025 Edward Heartney, the Minister Counselor of Economic and Social Affairs for the U.S. mission to the U.N., in a statement to the 58th General Assembly, said that "U.S. rejects and denounces the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs". The U.S. has always unofficially opposed the SDGs, but now they're simply making it official.