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Dr. Quentin Young of Physicians for a National Health Program spoke with Illinois Media Progressives for this week's "Single Payer Minute" to weigh in on HHS Secretary-Designate Tom Daschele's call for house parties on health care reform.

And one of our own PDA members had the honor of introducing Dr. Young to the blogging community...there's more...

PDA member Cat Jarboe introduced Dr. Young to the blogging community at Daily Kos, with a small sampling of his lifelong record of service:

For those of you unfamiliar with Dr. Young, he has been a tireless advocate for single payer health care for over twenty years, but that is just one item on a CV that includes:

- Practicing medicine for over sixty years (he's recently retired)
- President of the Medical Committee for Human Rights,(physicians who traveled to treat victims of racial violence)during the most tumultuous years of the civil rights movement, 1963-69
- Personal physician for Dr. King when he was in Chicago (Dr. Young was marching alongside Dr. King when attacked in Chicago. Can you think of a better guy to be next to you when you're hit by a brick?)
- Chair of the Chicago Health Department under Mayor Harold Washington, and personal physician to Studs Terkel, and Mike Royko as well

Doc Young celebrated his 85th birthday this year, and his energy and enthusiasm puts us both to shame.

Now more than ever, the responsibility lies with all of us to let the incoming administration know that we will settle for nothing less than a Single Payer solution to our health care and economic crises.

There's still time to host a single payer house party.

The next PDA Congressional call-in day will be Monday, December 22, so plan on contacting your Representative's local office to express your support for HR 676 and single payer health care.

Cross posted at PDA-Illinois