Alabama
Alabama Information
Contact Information
Health Care for Everyone — Alabama
Website: http://www.universalhealthcare.us.com/
Contact: Dr. J. Walden Retan
Media Contact
J Walden Retan, MD
Phone: 205-967-2900
Fax: 205-969-0069
E-mail: HealthCareForEveryone@charter.net
Dr. Retan was educated at Hamilton College, MIT, and the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. His post graduate training was in the hospitals of the Harvard Medical system. He came to Birmingham as faculty at University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB). He entered private practice of internal medicine and, later, geriatrics in the 1960’s. Presently practicing nursing home medicine part time.
State Organizations Endorsing HR676
- Tuskeegee, AL
Union Endorsers of HR676
- Steelworker Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) Chapter 36
- Steelworker Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) Chapter 36-2, Gardendale, AL
- Steelworker Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) Chapter 9-UR 1, Harvest, AL
- Local 1155, UAW, Birmingham, AL
August 15, 2008
Doctor says U.S. needs universal health care
By STEVE DOYLE | Huntsville Times
Dr. Wally Retan knows the odds aren’t great that Congress will pass a universal health care bill anytime soon. But the chairman of Alabama’s “Health Care for Everyone” chapter still dreams of a time when all Americans have comprehensive, low-cost health insurance provided by the federal government.
May 7, 2007
Working to fix the health-care crisis
By W.J. Coggins | The Tuscaloosa News
The steadily rising costs of health care is a worldwide problem. In the other industrial nations where costs are rationally managed, the total burden on the economy is half as much as ours because they have a single-payer system either managed by the government or smaller governmental units. The overall quality of care in these countries, measured by life expectancy, infant mortality rates, patient satisfaction and other parameters, is better than ours.
April 10, 2007
Group pushing for universal health care forms Birmingham chapter
DAVE PARKS | The Birmingham News | News staff writer
A newly reinvigorated chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program - an organization that has been pushing since the 1980s for universal health care - has formed in the Birmingham area.