Dr. Margaret Flowers, PNHP

On Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Dr. Margaret Flowers, MD Chair of Physicians for a National Health Plan and member of the Baucus 8, will appear “live” on back-to-back radio talk shows hosted by Rebecca Faris. Hear the simulcast from your computer at http://www.wrir.org starting at noon EST til 1pm EST.You can read an article by Dr. Flowers entitled, Health: a fight for rights on Physicians for a National Health Plan.

Dr. Margaret Flowers, a Maryland pediatrician with experience as a hospitalist at a rural hospital and in private practice. She is currently working on single-payer health care reform full-time and is a Congressional Fellow of Physicians for a National Health Program, an organization of 16,000 doctors who advocate for single payer. She is a member of Healthcare-Now! of Maryland and a co-founder of the Conversation Coalition for Health Care Reform. Dr. Flowers obtained her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and did her residency at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Dr. Flowers testified before Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on June 11:http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/testimony_of_margare.phpA little more than a month prior to that, she was among those who stood up and spoke in a dignified way in support of putting single payer “on the table” at the May 5 meeting of the Senate Finance Committee, leading to her arrest along with seven others:http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/may/doctors_protest_excl.phpmore linkshttp://www.pnhp.org/http://www.healthcare-now.org/http://www.medicareforall.org/http://www.medicareforall.org/pages/Million_Letters_Campaignhttp://singlepayeraction.org/