and patients are going to make our voices heard by converging at the organization’s annual meeting in Chicago on June 8.”

“This protest will resurrect a similar rights-based campaign waged throughout the 1960s by the African-American-led National Medical Association, the Medical Committee for Human Rights, and Martin Luther King Jr’s Poor People’s Campaign in which members of these groups squared off against the AMA because of its racist membership policies and its refusal to take a stand against medical apartheid. Among the participants of those actions was Dr. Sidney Wolfe, who co-founded Public Citizen along with Ralph Nader.”

The protests against the AMA are being organized by Physicians for a National Health Program, Students for a National Health Program, National Nurses United, Public Citizen, The Center for Popular Democracy, laborare trying to target Democrats. They know they have Republicans in their corner. Now they are trying to put pressure on Democrats to waver on the issue of Medicare for All or to come out and oppose it directly.”

“They are good at confusing the situation. They come out with watered down health care reform that in essence ties patient health care to the private health insurance industry, to markets. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a good example of this.”

“At first, Barack Obama was a single payer supporter. He worked alongside people like Quintin Young of Physicians for a National Health Program in Chicago. Obama was a supporter of single payer when he was a state Senator in Illinois.”

“Then when he arrived in Washington, seemingly overnight, he turned