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Arthur Sutherland
901-237-6440
asutherland@sutherlandclinic.com

Dr. Sutherland is a physician and founder of the Sutherland Cardiology Clinic. He practiced cardiology in Memphis for 33 years and was the founder and director of the Methodist Healthcare Cardiac Laboratories. Dr Sutherland is currently serving as Chairman of the Tennessee Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program.

J. I. Hudson, Jr., M.D. | jhudson@dotspot.net

Dr. Hudson is a retired pediatrician now residing in Lynnville, Tennessee. His medical career includes private practice of pediatrics, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Associate Dean for Academic Medicine at the Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine, Associate at the Johns Hopkins Center for Hospital Finance and Management. He has participated with efforts to establish nation-wide networks for quality assurance for acute hospital care in The Netherlands and Peninsular Malaysia, has consulted on matters of health care quality with the U.S. Health Care Financing Agency, Select Committee on Aging of U.S. Congress, and with USAID supported primary health care programs in West Africa and the Middle East.

State Organizations Endorsing HR676

  • Warren County, TN

Local Unions Endorsing HR676

  • Steelworker Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) Chapter 9-ABG 1, Kingsport, TN
  • Plumbers Local Union #17, United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry (UA), Memphis, TN


July 14, 2008

Health care as a right is hard sell, except outside U.S.
By Wendi C. Thomas | Memphis Commercial Appeal
What is it like to be sick outside of the United States? Well, if you are among the 47 million uninsured or 25 million underinsured in America, health care in capitalist democracies such as Switzerland, Germany, Japan, Great Britain or Taiwan is decidedly better than the broken system we have here.