Dr. Quentin Young with Sen. Barack Obama

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http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/july/dr_quentin_young_wi.php

"PNHP National Coordinator Dr. Quentin Young with Sen. Barack Obama at Dr. Young’s 80th birthday celebration in 2003..."

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2013/november/quentin-young-a-rebel-without-a-pause

"From my adolescent years to the present, I’ve never wavered in my belief in humanity’s ability - and our collective responsibility - to bring about a more just and equitable social order. I’ve always believed in humanity’s potential to create a more caring society.

That viewpoint has infused my relations with family, friends, patients, and medical colleagues. It has been a lifelong, driving force to promote equality and the common good, and I believe it has served me well..."

Comment:

By Don McCanne, M.D.

This weekend in Boston at the annual meeting of Physicians for a National Health Program, we will be celebrating the 90th birthday of Quentin Young. This is no ordinary birthday for no ordinary man. He lives up to his name by remaining young and vibrant as he continues his lifelong quest for equality and the common good, while fighting the forces of injustice. His work is unfinished..."


Single Payer Advocate Quentin Young: Passing Obamacare Worse than Doing Nothing

http://www.singlepayeraction.org/2013/10/08/single-payer-advocate-quentin-young-passing-obamacare-worse-than-doing-nothing/


"Passing Obamacare was worse than doing nothing and the legislation should have been defeated.

That’s the conclusion of single payer advocate Dr. Quentin Young, national coordinator for Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), in his just released autobiography – Everybody In, Nobody Out: Memoirs of a Rebel Without a Pause...

“Had I been in Congress, I would have unequivocally voted against Obamacare,” Young writes. “It’s a bad bill. Whether it’s worse than what we have now could be argued. We rather think because of its ability to enshrine and solidify the corporate domination of the health system, it’s worse than what we have now. But whether it is somewhat better or a lot worse is immaterial. The health system isn’t working in this country — fiscally, medically, socially, morally.”

Young rejects the idea that President Obama should have compromised on single payer in the face of industry opposition.

“I don’t have any sympathy for the idea that the president had to compromise because his opposition was strong,” Young writes. “Winning is not always winning the election. Winning is making a huge fight and then taking the fight to the people — re-electing people who are supporting your program and defeating those who aren’t.”

Young first met the young Barack Obama in the mid-1990s at social gatherings..."