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PNHP Illinois
Website: http://www.pnhpillinois.org
E-mail: info@pnhpillinois.org
Illinois Single-Payer Coalition
http://www.ilsinglepayercoalition.org/site
For upcoming single-payer events in Illinois:
http://www.ilsinglepayercoalition.org/site/event-tracker
State Legislation
Illinois Universal Health Care Act — HB 311 (link)
The Illinois Universal Health Care Act (HB 311) establishes a statewide single-payer health insurance plan to provide comprehensive health benefits to all Illinoisans equally.
Speakers and Media Contacts
CLAUDIA FEGAN, MD
773.753.5509
singlepayer@sbcglobal.net
Dr. Fegan, a past president of PNHP, is the associate chief medical officer for the Ambulatory and Community Health Network for the Cook County Bureau of Health Services. She is the coordinator of the Illinois PNHP chapter’s Speaker’s Bureau, and has lectured extensively to both medical and community audiences on health care reform in the U.S. and Canada. She is a co-author of “Universal Healthcare: What the United States Can Learn from Canada” (1999) and a contributor to “10 Reasons for National Health Care” (2008). The daughter of a labor union organizer and a social worker, Dr. Fegan received her undergraduate degree from Fisk University and M.D. from the University of Illinois College of Medicine.
QUENTIN YOUNG, MD
312.782.6006
info@pnhp.org
Dr. Quentin Young, an internist who recently retired from a decades-long practice in the Hyde Park community on Chicago's South Side, is national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program, an organization of 17,000 doctors who advocate for single-payer national health insurance – an improved Medicare for All. He is clinical professor of preventive medicine and community health at the University of Illinois Medical Center. In 2009 he was appointed Health Advocate for the state of Illinois by Gov. Patrick Quinn.
Dr. Young graduated from Northwestern Medical School and did his residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. During the 1970s and early 1980s, he served as chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Cook County, where he established the Department of Occupational Medicine. He has been an American Medical Association member since 1952. In 1998, he had the distinction of serving as president of the American Public Health Association and in 1997 was inducted as a Master of the American College of Physicians.
In addition to his distinguished career as a physician, Dr. Young has been a leader in public health policy and medical and social justice issues. He was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s personal physician during the latter's stays in Chicago, and served for many years as chairman of the Medical Committee for Human Rights. He presently blogs at The Huffington Post.
Organizations Supporting Guaranteed Single Payer Health Care
Illinois State News
By Claudia Fegan, M.D. | Hyde Park Herald (Chicago)
Many residents of Hyde Park work for large employers, the University of Chicago being just one example among several. In the wake of the new health law, what benefit changes can workers at these large companies expect to see?
By Claudia Fegan, M.D. | The Hyde Park Herald (Chicago)
Many of Hyde Park's small businesses are doing their budget and tax planning for the year ahead. For some, the issue of health care insurance looms large, either as a current expense or as something they'd like to begin offering their employees.
Anne Scheetz, MD, FACP, Chicago | Chicago Tribune
We need to get rid of insurance companies, not negotiate with them. Under a single-payer health care system, Improved and Expanded Medicare for All, everyone would have access to mental health care, as well as to all other necessary care.
Anne Scheetz, M.D. | Letter to the Editor | Chicago Tribune
Private insurance companies may, on paper, pay physicians substantially more than Medicare, but this must be taken in the context that Medicare actually pays the rates it publishes and pays on time, while private insurance companies subject physicians to a maze of voluntary and involuntary discounts, denials, delays and underpayments that make calculation of what physicians actually get impossible.
Quentin D. Young, M.D. | Letter to the Editor | Chicago Sun-Times
The solution, favored by a solid majority of the American people and physicians, is an improved Medicare for all -- single-payer national health insurance. Such a program would cover everyone, without exception, and give us the cost-control tools we need to deliver high-quality care over the long haul.
By Donna Smith | Guaranteed Healthcare Blog
Just blocks from President Obama's Hyde Park home south of the Loop in Chicago, more than 70 activists gathered on Saturday, March 27, 2010, to plan strategy for advancing an improved and expanded Medicare for all system as the law of the land. Activists across the nation are undaunted by the passage of the current health reform bill as they know that mandating the purchase of private insurance is not the same as providing access to healthcare.
BY SANDRA GUY | Chicago Sun-Times
Individual health-insurance rates in Illinois will rise this year up to 60 percent, according to Michael McRaith, director of insurance for Illinois.
WBBM Radio
Gov. Pat Quinn has named Dr. Quentin Young as the state's Public Health Advocate, according to a release from the governor's office Saturday. Dr. Young will develop wellness and education programs to help improve the health of the residents across Illinois.