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North Alabama Healthcare for All
Website: www.NorthAlabamaHealthcareForAll.org
Media Contacts
Pippa Abston, M.D., Ph.D
Physician coordinator, North Alabama Healthcare for All
E-mail: pabston@aol.com
Google voicemail: 256-513-9638 (leave message)
Dr. Abston is a general pediatrician who sees patients in Huntsville, Alabama and teaches medical students and family practice residents. She is available to speak on healthcare reform, especially from a human rights, faith based, or medical perspective. She got her combined degrees from the University of South Alabama College of Medicine (PhD in Basic Medical Sciences/Immunology). Her other community activities include helping to establish a homeless clinic and a child passenger safety clinic in Huntsville, serving on the Board of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill/Huntsville chapter, heading the Health Ministries Committee at her church, and running an autism diagnostic clinic.
Linda Haynes, MBA
Coordinator, North Alabama Healthcare For All
Phone: 256-489-3884
Cell: 256-429-8639
E-mail: lahaynes@knology.net
Linda Haynes is Coordinator of North Alabama Healthcare for All, a chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. She has been organizing community events and coordinating publicity on the healthcare reform since 2008. Her community involvement includes serving as Publicity Chair for the Faith Coalition on Poverty and Public Policy, Vice Chair of the Madison County Democratic Women's Division, and a member of the Madison County Democratic Executive Committee. She received her undergraduate degree in Accounting from Auburn University and her Masters of Business Administration from the University of Houston.
State Organizations Endorsing HR676
- Tuskeegee, AL
Local Unions Endorsing 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
Alabama State News
By MARK E. WILSON | Birmingham News
Recently in clinic at Cooper Green Mercy Hospital, I saw a man in his 50s who had a good relationship with his doctor until three years ago, when he lost his job and his health insurance. Before long, he could no longer afford health care from his doctor. He had a history of "borderline diabetes," but he felt reasonably well, until last month, when his big toe turned black. He came to our emergency room and was admitted with uncontrolled diabetes, kidney disease and gangrene of his toe, which required an amputation.
By Dr. Oliver Fein | The Huntsville (Ala.) Times
President Obama’s health reform plan hasn’t stalled just because of one election in Massachusetts. The seeds for today’s impasse were planted long ago.
By Patricia C. McCarter | Huntsville Times
Asked how many people knew someone who had died because they couldn't afford medical care, five of the 70 people at the Health Care is a Human Right physicians panel discussion stood up.
By Pippa Abston, MD, PhD and Huntsville-area physicians. | Huntsville Times
We are your doctors, and we are frustrated. Frustrated over endless insurance paperwork and denials of coverage. Frustrated that our patients can't choose their own doctors because of insurance restrictions; frustrated when our patients lose their insurance coverage and can't afford medical care.
By Patricia C. McCarter | Huntsville Times
Everybody in. Nobody out. With these four words, Huntsville pediatrician Pippa Abston described what she believes is the best health care option for America. She also described it as "Medicare for all," a concept that concerns citizens who don't support the federal government getting bigger.