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Media Contacts
Greg Silver, M.D.
(727) 712-3280
drsilver@drsilver.net
Dr. Silver is a solo, practicing family physician in Clearwater, Florida. He has been an active lecturer and consultant in the areas of healthcare reform, electronic medical records and the adoption of new medical technologies.
Howard A. Green, M.D., FACP, FAAD | 561-659-1510 | hag2@comcast.net
Dr Green received his education at George Washington University and The Boston University of Medicine. He did his post doctoral work at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and at Harvard Medical School.
Stephen Blythe, D.O.
(321) 723-1778
sblythe@cfl.rr.com
Dr. Blythe is a Board Certified Family Physician practicing in Melbourne, Florida. Dr. Blythe’s educational background, in addition to his medical degree, includes a degree in Biology from MIT, graduate studies in nutrition and public health at Pennsylvania State University, and a Master’s Degree in Health Administration.
Local Unions Endorsing HR676
- United Association of Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 630, West Palm Beach, FL
- North Central Florida Central Labor Council, Gainesville, FL
- Steelworker Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) Chapter 9-36 F 5, Cape Coral, FL
- North Florida Central Labor Council, Jacksonville, FL
- District Lodge 112, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers(IAM), Jacksonville, FL
- Florida State Alliance for Retired Americans
- Lodge 721, IAM, Jacksonville, FL
- Local Union 295, United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry (UA), Daytona Beach, FL
- Florida AFL-CIO
- West Central Florida Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, Tampa, FL
- Local 2779, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
- Palm Beach-Treasure Coast AFL-CIO
Florida State News
By Rick Ford | Letters, The Palm Beach Post
Single-payer national health insurance based on Medicare would prevent this abuse of Florida's patients and small businesses by multi-level for-profit health insurance companies by providing publicly financed, privately delivered health care for all Floridians at lower cost.
By Dr. Howard Green | Palm Beach Post
All of the well-publicized political health care programs have one thing in common: They all seek to steer larger portions of Medicare and Medicaid through private insurance corporations. They differ only in their degrees of rationing, with President Obama's plan restricting rationing for profit and Rep. Paul Ryan's mandate allowing the most rationing by the health insurance industry.
HOWARD A. GREEN, MD | Letters To The Editor | Palm Beach Post
Americans should celebrate this 45th anniversary of Medicare.
By Charles Mathews | Cap Scan, the journal of the Capital Medical Society (Tallahassee)
I was troubled and sleep-deprived by these past several years of frustrations and struggles to achieve a seemingly simple straightforward goal for this great Republic, namely health care for all, Medicare-type coverage, cradle to grave, such as all other advanced countries provide their citizens. Enacting legislation, single payer, has lain in the congressional hopper for years, where it is kept buried by the powerful lobbyists of the health care oligarchs.
By F. Douglas Stephenson | Citrus County (Fla.) Chronicle
Over 45 million US citizens now lack any kind of health insurance, and millions more have very inadequate coverage in the policies they now carry. Among these with incomes below the federal poverty line, a third had no health insurance. Statistics show that among Americans who are inadequately insured, a significant number are sicker and die younger than those who have insurance.
Today's message is not meant to be an "I told you so," even if I did tell you. The point of the message is that health policy science has advanced to a level that the consequences of policies in various reform proposals are fully predictable. "Well, let's try this and see how it goes" is no longer acceptable, especially for our entire $2.5 trillion health care industry.
Steffie Woolhandler & David U. Himmelstein | Letter to the Editor | Orlando Sentinel
Congressman Cliff Stearns in his My Word column Tuesday ("Use facts in health-care debate") repeats misinformation spread by a conservative think-tank about our study that found that nearly 45,000 Americans die annually because they lack health insurance.