Nominee's Background:
Dr. Young is a practicing internist in Hyde Park, a Clinical Professor of preventive Medicine at the University of Illinois Medical Center and Senior Attending Physician at Michael Reese Hospital. During the 1970s and early 1980s, he served as Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Cook County Hospital, where he helped establish the Department of Occupational Medicine. In addition to his distinguished career as a physician, Dr. Young has been a leader in public health policy and medical and social justice issues. In 1998, he had the special distinction of serving as President of the American Public Health Association and in 1997 was inducted as a Master of the American College of Physicians. In 1980, Dr. Young founded the Chicago based Health & Medicine Policy Research Group, of which he is currently Chairman. Health & Medicine is a non-profit organization created to be an advocate for the health care needs of the poor and underserved in Chicago. Dr. Young is also the National Coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), a Chicago based organization of over 9,000 physicians who support single payer national health insurance. He has served as Chairman of the American College of Physicians' Subcommittee on Human Rights and Medical Practice and has been a member of both the Humana-Michael Reese Medical Board and the American College of Physicians Health and Public Policy Committee. Every other Tuesday morning, Dr. Young hosts "Public Affairs" on WBEZ, Chicago public radio. Dr. Young has chosen to limit his medical practice in order to spend more time fighting the corporate takeover of medicine in America.
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Progressive Criteria:
The Health and Human Services Department will:
Fully acknowledge that health coverage is a human right;
Stand for high quality universal health care (including mental health care) for all residents of the US, effective, safe and affordable drugs and strong prevention programs;
Through the FDA, work to make sure that safe and effective drugs are also affordable;
Run a research program that is not shaped by religious doctrines and that is open to public scrutiny;
Support women's right to choose and work to make that right available to all;
Promote publicly-funded drug research based on public health need, not profit;
Promote drug research to benefit all demographic groups and all segments of American society;
Cooperate with international health promotion and assistance.
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