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Illinois Information

Contact Information

Health Care for All Illinois
Website: http://healthcareil.org/
E-mail: info@healthcareil.org

State Legislation

Health Care for All Illinois Act — HB 311 (link)
The Health Care for All Illinois Act (HB 311) establishes a statewide single-payer health insurance plan to provide comprehensive health benefits to all Illinoisans equally.

Media Contacts

CLAUDIA FEGAN, MD
773.753.5509
singlepayer@sbcglobal.net

Dr. Fegan, a past president of PNHP, is the associate chief medical officer for the Ambulatory and Community Health Network for the Cook County Bureau of Health Services. She is the coordinator of the Illinois PNHP chapter’s Speaker’s Bureau, and has lectured extensively to both medical and community audiences on health care reform in the U.S. and Canada. She is a co-author of “Universal Healthcare: What the United States Can Learn from Canada” (1999) and a contributor to “10 Reasons for National Health Care” (2008). The daughter of a labor union organizer and a social worker, Dr. Fegan received her undergraduate degree from Fisk University and M.D. from the University of Illinois College of Medicine

 


QUENTIN YOUNG, MD
312.782.6006
info@pnhp.org

Dr. Young, an internist who recently retired from a decades-long practice in Chicago’s Hyde Park community, is national coordinator of PNHP. He is clinical professor of preventive medicine and community health at the University of Illinois Medical Center. Dr. Young graduated from Northwestern Medical School and did his residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. During the 1970s and early 1980s, he served as chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Cook County, where he established the Department of Occupational Medicine. He has also been an American Medical Association member since 1952.

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 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.

Local Unions Endorsing HR676

  • NOLSW/UAW Local 2320, Chicago, IL
  • SOAR Chapter 31-9, Chicago, IL
  • American Guild of Musical Artists, Chicago, IL
  • Southwestern Illinois Building & Construction Trades Council, Collinsville, IL
  • Chicago & Midwest Regional Joint Board, UNITE HERE
  • Greater Madison County Federation of Labor
  • Local 73, Service Employees International Union

Illinois State News


Posted on Monday, March 8, 2010

BY SANDRA GUY | Chicago Sun-Times
Individual health-insurance rates in Illinois will rise this year up to 60 percent, according to Michael McRaith, director of insurance for Illinois.


Posted on Monday, January 11, 2010

WBBM Radio
Gov. Pat Quinn has named Dr. Quentin Young as the state's Public Health Advocate, according to a release from the governor's office Saturday. Dr. Young will develop wellness and education programs to help improve the health of the residents across Illinois.