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Maryland PNHP
Website: md.pnhp.org
E-mail: conversationcoalition@gmail.com
Media Contacts
Margaret Flowers, M.D.
(312) 782-6006
mdpnhp@gmail.com
Dr. Flowers is a Maryland pediatrician with experience as a hospitalist at a rural hospital and in private practice. She is currently working on single-payer health care reform full-time. In addition to her activity as co-chair of the Maryland chapter and Congressional Fellow for PNHP, Dr. Flowers is on the board of Healthcare-Now! and on the steering committee of the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care. Dr. Flowers obtained her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and did her residency at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
Elias K. Shaya, M.D.
(410) 532-4540
eshaya@pol.net
Dr. Shaya is Chief of Psychiatry at the Good Samaritan Hospital of Maryland, Inc. and President, Elias K. Shaya, M.D., P.A. — Multidisciplinary Group Practice. He is trained in psychiatry and nuclear medicine, and an instructor in Radiology and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, and Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at the George Washington University. Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
State Organizations Endorsing HR676
- Baltimore, MD
Local Unions Endorsing HR676
- Western Maryland Central Labor Council
- SEIU 32 BJ (Baltimore)
- GCC-1 Brotherhood of Teamsters (Baltimore)
- International Organizations of Masters, Mates, and Pilots, (Linthicum)
- United Steelworkers, Local 8-116 S (Baltimore)
- Baltimore Filbey Area Local of American Postal Workers Union (Baltimore)
- UNITE — Here, Mid Atlantic, Baltimore City Branch, NAACP, International Association of Machinists (Upper Marlboro)
- AFSCME Local 1535 (Baltimore)
- United Transportation Union (Frostburg)
- IBEW (Cockeysville)
Maryland State News
By Larry Carson | The Baltimore Sun
The idea of a single-payer health care system was lost in the debate over the much-amended national health care reform1 passed by Congress last year, but three Howard County delegates are co-sponsors of legislation in this year's General Assembly that seeks to bring the idea to fruition in the Free State.
By Margaret Flowers, M.D. | Tikkun Magazine
As we sit here on the other side of the recent health reform process, we have an opportunity for reflection. There were many times during the past year and a half when passage of a health bill seemed unlikely. However, in the end, the White House and Democratic leadership joined forces and converted the last holdouts with scare tactics of electoral turnovers and even a trip on Air Force One in order to muscle a bill over the final hurdles.
Dr. Carol A. Paris | South Maryland Newspapers
I can't pretend to be even cautiously optimistic that the health insurance reform legislation passed by Congress on Sunday will accomplish its goal of making health insurance more affordable. More importantly, I understand that having health insurance doesn't mean a patient can afford health care. I want my patients to be freed from the burden of worrying about how to pay for the care they need. I'm tired of having patients get tears in their eyes, or become embarrassed and feel ashamed because they can't afford the care I recommend.
By David Swanson | OpEdNews.com
California keeps passing bills for state single-payer healthcare, but Ahhhnold won't sign em, and Jerry Brown who wants to be governor doesn't seem to want it badly enough to make a commitment on healthcare. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania is encouraged that their current governor has said he probably will sign a single-payer healthcare bill, and the legislature just might pass one. But Minnesota has an angle neither of these other states can claim: a serious candidate for governor who is the state's leading advocate for single-payer.
By Erin Sullivan | Baltimore City Paper
Local health-care practitioners explain why they're willing to go to jail in the name of health-care reform.
By Margaret Flowers, M.D. | Op-Ed News
I am a pediatrician who, like many of my primary care colleagues, left practice because it is nearly impossible to deliver high quality health care in this environment. I have been volunteering for Physicians for a National Health Program ever since. For over a year now, I have been working with the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care/ National Single Payer Alliance. This alliance represents over 20 million people nationwide from doctors to nurses to labor, faith and community groups who advocate on behalf of the majority of Americans, including doctors, who favor a national Medicare-for-All health system.