Dr. Quentin Young, Doctor to Martin Luther King Jr. and Obama, Dies at 93

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Source: DNAinfo

CALIFORNIA — Dr. Quentin Young, the crusading progressive physician to President Barack Obama among others, died Monday at his daughter’s 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 Young’s family, Young died on Monday at his daughter Polly Young’s 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]

1. Rest in peace

[Peregrine Took]

2. I bet he was very disappointed when Obama refused to push the pubic option.

Bill Press said that it was, ultimately, up to Obama and not to go for it was his decision.

[former9thward]

3. He was disappointed.

DR. QUENTIN YOUNG: Well, it’s (Obama's comments on single payer viability) one of the few times when Barack has been dishonest. He knows and all America knows that our experience with employment-based insurance and these other Mickey Mouse things have been increasingly a total disaster. You have a $2.5 trillion industry with vested interests — the private hospitals that are for profit, the HMOs, the health insurance industry — making billions upon billions, and things getting worse. He knows and should act on the fact that time is running out.
The American people are hurting. Over a million Americans go bankrupt due to medical bills each year, and there’s 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. It’s wrecked. And it’s ruining people, and the public can’t put up with it anymore.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/11/dr_quentin_young_obama_confidante_and

[Baobab]

6. No, thats not the case at all. See the links below. The paper's author was living with Dr. Young

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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]

4. When I was in Chicago I was in a group

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]

5. So sad he never saw his dream of Universal Health Care come true in the US

RIP Dr. Young. We shall continue the fight in his memory.

[Baobab]

7. Service liberalisation promises access to all corporations

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.