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Garrett Adams
502.895.8847
kyhealthcare@aol.com

Dr. Adams Received his training at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee and Wake Forest School of Medicine. He completed his Pediatric Residency at Vanderbilt University Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado. He also has a Master of Public Health (Epidemiology), Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health (Bloomberg School of Public Health).

Dr. Adams is a specialist in Infectious Diseases of Children and Infectious Disease Epidemiology. He is retired from the full-time faculty of the University of Louisville School of Medicine where he was Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Medical Director of Communicable Diseases at the Louisville Metro Health Department. He is immediate past president of Physicians for a National Health Program.

State Organizations Endorsing HR676

  • Kentucky House of Representatives
  • Louisville, KY
  • Morehead, KY
  • Falls City Medical Society, Kentucky
  • Kentucky Psychiatric Medical Association

Local Unions Endorsing HR676

  • United Steelworkers, Local 1693, Louisville, KY
  • Laborers International Union of North America Local 576, Louisville, KY
  • Jefferson County Teachers’ Association (NEA), Louisville, KY
  • AFSCME Local 2629, Louisville, KY
  • PACE Local 5-2002, Louisville, KY
  • Laborers International Union of North America Local 576 Retirees’ Council, Louisville, KY
  • Nurses Professional Organization, Louisville, KY
  • CWA Local 3310, Louisville, KY
  • UAW CAP Council, 3rd & 4th Areas, Kentucky
  • GCU/IBT Local 619, Louisville, KY
  • Kentucky State AFL-CIO
  • Kentucky Jobs with Justice, Louisville, KY
  • Greater Louisville Building & Construction Trades Council, Louisville, KY
  • Tri-County Council of Labor, AFL-CIO, Henderson, KY
  • Greater Louisville Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Louisville, KY, April 2006.
  • Steelworker Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) Chapter 9-UR 7, Hickman, KY
  • Northern Kentucky Central Labor Council, Covington, KY
  • Western Kentucky AFL-CIO Area Council, Paducah, KY
  • Plumbers, Pipefitters and Service Technicians Local 502, United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada, Louisville, KY
  • UAW Local 2164

U.S. Health Care — Down the Rabbit Hole

Posted November 1, 2021

 

Demonstrators in Louisville join nationwide ‘Medicare for All March’

Posted July 24, 2021

 

Action needed on systemic racism, health care

Posted December 28, 2020

 

Gov. Andy Beshear wants to give Black Kentucky residents health coverage — but there’s a catch

Posted July 18, 2020

 

Debating Beshear’s plan on health insurance for black Kentuckians

Posted June 11, 2020

 

Closing of rural hospitals

Posted April 28, 2020

 

Don’t believe the lies about single-payer health care

Posted April 15, 2019

 

Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion is cost-effective and saves lives

Posted September 20, 2018

 

‘Medicare for all’ offers many financial benefits

Posted December 21, 2017

 

Senate GOP health care bill estimated to kill 28,600 more in U.S. each year & drop 22M from insurance

This article includes video

Posted June 27, 2017

 

Health Care Financing: It’s a tape worm

Posted May 26, 2017

 

Eighteen-wheelers and Buick Enclaves

Posted March 24, 2017

 

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