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PNHP Minnesota
Website: http://www.pnhpminnesota.org/
E-mail: pnhpminnesota@gmail.com
The Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition
Website: http://www.muhcc.org/
Media Contacts
Ann Settgast, M.D.
(612) 387-7914
settg001@umn.edu
Dr. Settgast is an internist in St. Paul, Minnesota at the Center for International Health where she provides primary care to an immigrant and refugee population. She also provides inpatient medical care at Regions Hospital. In the summer of 2007 she co-founded the Minnesota chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program.
Elizabeth Frost, M.D.
(612) 724-3995
libbess@gmail.com
Elizabeth Frost, MD is a family practice doctor working at the West Side Community Health Services, a community clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota. After graduating from residency at the University of Minnesota, Elizabeth spent almost a year volunteering with Doctors for Global Health in Chiapas, Mexico. She currently works with a heavily Latino and mostly uninsured population in St. Paul, and is confronted daily with economic barriers to even basic care. She is currently the co-chair of Physicians for a National Health Program - Minnesota
James F. Hart, M.D.
(612) 626-6573
hartx013@umn.edu
Dr. Hart serves as the Director of the Executive Program in Public Health Practice in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Prior to that he worked for 26 years in primary care medical practice and management both independently and with HealthPartners Inc. He was on the faculty of the Regions Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program from 2002-2005. Dr. Hart has also had a long interest in global health issues – he served on the board of Minnesota International Health Volunteers for 13 years and now serves on the board of Global Health Ministries.
Susan Hasti, M.D.
(612) 702-0559
schasti@usfamily.net
Dr. Hasti is chair of the Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition (MUHCC) and a member of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP). MUHCC includes Minnesota Nurses Association, Senior Federation, SEIU, MAPE, Minnesota Farmer’s Union and several other organizations. Dr. Hasti is in her 10th year as a family practitioner at Open Cities Health Center, a federally funded community health clinic. Previously she worked for several years in private practice in Bristol, Connecticut. She received her MD degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Local Unions Endorsing HR676
- Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor Body, Duluth, MN
- AFSCME District Council 5, St. Paul, MN
- Minnesota AFL-CIO
- Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE)
- Southern Dakota County Labor Council, Apple Valley, MN
Minnesota State News
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 John Marty | MinnPost
Please, restore the hope that you raised in all of us, bring back the inspiration that made the American people so excited by your inauguration. I urge you to step back, reconsider, introduce a health care plan that is truly universal, and fight for it.
By Ann Settgast, M.D., and Elizabeth Frost, M.D. | Minnesota Medicine
As physicians, we are troubled by the direction of federal health care reform. Whether via a public health insurance option or an insurance mandate, the proposals on the table build on the structure of our broken system—the most costly, fragmented, and bureaucratic in the world.