Dr. Margaret Flowers on demanding single-payer health care for everyone in the U.S.
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Dr. Flowers
This week’s guest is Margaret Flowers, a pediatrician and mother of 3 teenagers from Baltimore, M.D. Dr. Flowers left medical practice in 2007 to advocate full-time for single-payer health care. She served as Congressional Fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program and is on the board of Healthcare-Now. Dr. Flowers has organized and participated in protests for health care, peace and economic justice which have included arrests for non-violent resistance. She was an initial organizer of the October 2011 Occupy Washington, DC. protests. She is co-director of It’s Our Economy. Also be sure to watch Dr. Flowers’s interview on Bill Moyers’s program, Medicare for All.