Dr. Quentin Young, Doctor to Martin Luther King Jr. and Obama, Dies at 93
Source: DNAinfo
CALIFORNIA Dr. Quentin Young, the crusading progressive physician to President Barack Obama among others, died Monday at his daughters house in California.
Young, 93, was a lifelong Hyde Parker and the physician to Obama, former Mayor Harold Washington and to writers like Studs Terkel and Mike Royko.
According to people who had spoken to Youngs family, Young died on Monday at his daughter Polly Youngs house on Monday.
Young was a lifelong advocate for a single-payer health care system and numerous other progressive causes, which he said in 2013 came from his youth growing up in Hyde Park.
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)Peregrine Took
(7,414 posts)Bill Press said that it was, ultimately, up to Obama and not to go for it was his decision.
former9thward
(32,016 posts)The American people are hurting. Over a million Americans go bankrupt due to medical bills each year, and theres a new study, incidentally, that will show that 50 percent of the bankruptcies are due to health costs; it will be 60 percent. So we have a worsening situation. And a man who wants to lead a country which is in great peril had best do some courageous things.
I really feel that we have to mount a national concern about this. As a doctor, up until a year ago, after sixty years of practice, I can testify that this system is well, broken is a gross understatement. Its wrecked. And its ruining people, and the public cant put up with it anymore.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/11/dr_quentin_young_obama_confidante_and
Baobab
(4,667 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 8, 2016, 11:27 PM - Edit history (1)
at time of his sudden death on August 8, 2009
Obama did not decide GATS- GATS is a WTO treaty on services that future-proofs- makes the world safe for corporations by dismantling the global safety nets. TiSA is its progeny.
http://www.pnhp.org/sites/default/files/Nick%20Skala%20GAT%20and%20Health%20Reform.pdf
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2009/06/16/public-option-pales-next-single-payer
former9thward
(32,016 posts)that Dr. Young's son, Ethan, was in. Ethan was a friend but I did not know his father very well except by reputation. Always a great fighter for single payer. R.I.P.
Dems to Win
(2,161 posts)RIP Dr. Young. We shall continue the fight in his memory.
Baobab
(4,667 posts)How could they sell their wares if the price of health care was devalued? How could all those jobs be hoarded by our country instead of globalized as is planned?
This was all decided in trade policy 20 years ago.