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Arthur J. Sutherland, III, M.D., FACC
901-237-6440
asutherland523@gmail.com
Dr. Sutherland is a retired 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 working with The Healthy Memphis Common Table as a Board member, and coordinator of the obesity and diabetes prevention initiative. This initiative is aligned to reduce the obesity and diabetic epidemics, and to improve the quality of care in treating diabetes. Improving health literacy and elimination of social and health disparities are also high priority agenda issues. Dr Sutherland is a member of the Memphis School of Servant Leadership, and is currently serving as Chairman of the Tennessee Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program which is advocating for a Single-Payer system of health care reform. He believes that health care is a human right and not a commodity to be rationed by wealth, employment, gender or race.
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
Tennessee State News
By Arthur J. Sutherland III, M.D. | The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
I would agree that Medicare is not perfect. It has been manipulated by the medical industries' influence over Congress and needs to be fixed to function correctly. We need a national health program like all other capitalistic nations already have in one fashion or another that is suitable to them.
Dr. Arthur J. Sutherland III | Letters | Memphis Commercial Appeal
Our health system is really a health care market that is not "free" and has many distortions. PPACA is flawed because it continues our nation's reliance on an inefficient, wasteful and costly private insurance model of financing health care. Nationally we deny health care access to millions, bankrupt patients and families, ratchet up costs and frustrate efforts to improve quality.
James Hudson, M.D. | Letter to the Editor | The Tennessean
Jack Irby of Smyrna is to be applauded for his stand on the issue of health care for Americans as being a right and not a privilege. He is on solid, rational ground when he concludes that the evidence is overwhelming that we must end the private insurance domination of health care in our country and move toward a publicly financed, single-payer Medicare for all approach.