Quentin Young, Sen. Barack Obama, 2003
Posted on 11/19/2014 4:00:37 AM PST by Ray76
Quentin Young is a founding member of the Chicago-based Physicians for a National Health Program. [1][2] Young is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America [14]
Peter Orris co-founded the Physicians for a National Health Program [3]. Orris was a member of Students for a Democratic Society at Harvard [4]
Physicians for a National Health Program advocates single-payer national health insurance. [10]
They both serve on the National Physicians Alliance Advisory Board. [5]
Obama learned about single-payer health care from his old friend and neighbor Dr. Quentin Young, the longtime coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program. [8][9]
The Democratic Socialists of America endorsed Obama for Illinois Senate [6] and he spoke at a meeting hosted by them [7]
Quentin Young, Bill Ayers, and Barack Obama all live in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Young attended the fund-raiser in communist and terrorist Bill Ayers home which launched Obama's political career. Obama was brought to that fund-raiser by Alice Palmer, a known communist. [11][12][13]
Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber advocates for single payer but it is "politically a non-starter". [15][16][17]
DSA member Gerald Friedman (and Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts) says, "after [the ACA] fails, we will finally do the right thing: single-payer health insurance."
Was the ACA designed to fail? Some think so. [19]
In fact the ACA is failing.
In February, 2014, the Congressional Budget Office released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook which projects that "as a result of the ACA, between 6 million and 7 million fewer people will have employment-based insurance coverage each year from 2016 through 2024 than would be the case in the absence of the ACA." [20][21]
This is according to plan.
Time magazine reporter Kate Pickert in 2013 asked Gruber, "if Democrats understood that the ACA would slowly and methodically erode the system under which millions of Americans get health insurance through their jobs. In pitching the ACA, Democrats had been adamant that the law would support and sustain the employer-based system, not erode it. But Gruber knew better and he told me so, likening workers being kicked off job-based health plans to people ‘falling off a building,’ an outcome that architects of the ACA knew was likely and had planned for". [22] [23]
"To win we must not just generate understanding, but emotion—fear, revulsion, anger, disgust" says Creamer.
Creamer is married to Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). Schakowsky is closely tied to the DSA in Chicago where she has given speeches, received awards, hosted dinners, and is called "an old friend". [25][26][27][28]
Schakowsky has made it clear that the ACA's public plan option is a Trojan Horse for a complete federal takeover. [29][30][31][32]
On November 24, 2009, Creamer and Schakowsky attended a White House state dinner.[33]
[1] http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/july/dr_quentin_young_wi.php
[2] http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/april/dr_quentin_young_a.php
[3] http://npalliance.org/about/npa-leadership/npa-advisory-board/peter-orris-md-mph/
[4] http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000033917436;view=1up;seq=32
see page 26
[5] http://web.archive.org/web/20100522023130/http://npalliance.org/content/pages/npa_advisory_board
[6] http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng69.html
[7] http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/12/Democratic-Socialists-of-America-Endorsed-European-Social-Democrat-Obama-in-2000
[8] http://www.progressive.org/mag/nichols0109.html
[9] http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/11/dr_quentin_young_obama_confidante_and
[10] http://www.pnhp.org/
[11] http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=3FC289D8-3048-5C12-009AD5180C22FF0B
[12] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/07/21/making-it
[13] http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/why-obamas-political-mentor-deserted-him/
[14] http://www.chicagodsa.org/hd040619.html
[15] http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/07/25/Another-Stunning-Admission-in-Gruber-s-Speech-The-Public-Option-Was-Single-Payer
[16] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oQwcTRo-wY
[17] http://pnhp.org/blog/2011/11/17/jonathan-gruber-best-you-know-short-of-single-payer/
[18] http://www.dsausa.org/national_health_insurance
[19] http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/harry-reid-and-tom-coburn-agree-obamacare-was-designed-fail-pave-way-single-payer_745908.html
[20] http://dailysignal.com/2014/02/05/cbo-report-millions-will-lose-employment-based-health-insurance/
[21] http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/45010-Outlook2014.pdf
[22] http://www.wnd.com/2014/11/gruber-knew-americans-would-lose-job-based-insurance/
[23] http://www.wnd.com/2014/11/obamacare-guru-obama-himself-plotted-deception/?cat_orig=politics
[24] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache:zy_u66To3LsJ:http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2009/12/07/Was-Democrats----Health-Care-Strategy-Written-In-Federal-Prison%2Bbiggovernment.com/jpollak/2009/12/07/was-democrats-health-care-strategy-written-in-federal-prison/&gbv=1&&ct=clnk
[25] http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ngtxt70.html
[26] http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng68.html
[27] http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng44.html
[28] http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng60.html
[29] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT4mV3R7vu4
[30] http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff372.htm
[31] http://www.verumserum.com/?p=5118
[32] http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone081009.php3#.U4-0TmByFWM
[33] http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/11/chicagoans_at_the_obama_state.html
Additional Reading
Democratic Socialists of America http://www.dsausa.org/our_structure
The website of the Congressional Progressive Caucus was hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America until 1999. http://www.wnd.com/2002/11/15866/
Congressional Progressive Caucus members http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=71§iontree=2,71
Obama touts single payer
Acknowledgement
I must acknowledge trevorloudon.com which put me on the scent.
I clicked on the first and third link.
First link is no longer available. Third link came up with a malware warning, and then said not available.
I’m sure it’s nothing though. /s
First and third came right up
[1] http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/july/dr_quentin_young_wi.php
[3] http://npalliance.org/about/npa-leadership/npa-advisory-board/peter-orris-md-mph/
Here are the links in the article but in a clickable format. Hope this helps. If any are broken please let me know.
[1] http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/july/dr_quentin_young_wi.php
[2] http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/april/dr_quentin_young_a.php
[3] http://npalliance.org/about/npa-leadership/npa-advisory-board/peter-orris-md-mph/
[4] http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000033917436;view=1up;seq=32
see page 26
[5] http://web.archive.org/web/20100522023130/http://npalliance.org/content/pages/npa_advisory_board
[6] http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng69.html
[8] http://www.progressive.org/mag/nichols0109.html
[9] http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/11/dr_quentin_young_obama_confidante_and
[10] http://www.pnhp.org/
[11] http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=3FC289D8-3048-5C12-009AD5180C22FF0B
[12] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/07/21/making-it
[13] http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/why-obamas-political-mentor-deserted-him/
[14] http://www.chicagodsa.org/hd040619.html
[16] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oQwcTRo-wY
[17] http://pnhp.org/blog/2011/11/17/jonathan-gruber-best-you-know-short-of-single-payer/
[18] http://www.dsausa.org/national_health_insurance
[20] http://dailysignal.com/2014/02/05/cbo-report-millions-will-lose-employment-based-health-insurance/
[21] http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/45010-Outlook2014.pdf
[22] http://www.wnd.com/2014/11/gruber-knew-americans-would-lose-job-based-insurance/
[23] http://www.wnd.com/2014/11/obamacare-guru-obama-himself-plotted-deception/?cat_orig=politics
[25] http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ngtxt70.html
[26] http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng68.html
[27] http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng44.html
[28] http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng60.html
[29] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT4mV3R7vu4
[30] http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff372.htm
[31] http://www.verumserum.com/?p=5118
[32] http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone081009.php3#.U4-0TmByFWM
[33] http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/11/chicagoans_at_the_obama_state.html
Additional Reading
Democratic Socialists of America http://www.dsausa.org/our_structure
The website of the Congressional Progressive Caucus was hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America until 1999. http://www.wnd.com/2002/11/15866/
Congressional Progressive Caucus members http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=71§iontree=2,71
Obama touts single payer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LhEX3rHssJI#t=57
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/08/19/obama-touts-single-payer-system/
Jonathan Gruber, “Taking Massachusetts National: An Incremental Approach to Universal Health Insurance”
http://www.hamiltonproject.org/files/downloads_and_links/Taking_Massachusetts_National-_An_Incremental_Approach_to_Universal_Health_Insurance.pdf
The following is an excerpt from a thread called “The Revolution Was” on FR writing about the New Deal (And how that WAS the Revolution). The booklet was written in 1939. A long excerpt, but it is ALL RIGHT ON TRACK WITH WHAT IS GOING ON NOW. EXACTLY.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts
“...Well, certainly nothing like that was going to happen here. That it probably could not happen, and that everybody was so sure it couldn’t made everything easier for what did happen....
... The more you destroy the less there is to take over. Always the single end in view is a transfer of power....
Outside of the Communist party and its aurora of radical intellectuals few Americans seemed to know that revolution had become a department of knowledge, with a philosophy and a doctorate of its own... but revolution as a means to power in the abstract ease.
There was a prodigious literature of revolutionary thought concealed only by the respectability of its dress.
Americans generally associated dangerous doctrine with bad printing, rude grammar, and stealthy distribution. Here was revolutionary doctrine in well printed and well written books, alongside of beat sellers at your bookstore....
To the revolutionary this same dreary stuff was the most exciting reading in the world. It was knowledge that gave him a sense of power. One who mastered the subject to the point of excellence could be fairly sure of a livelihood by teaching and writing, that is, by imparting it to others, and meanwhile dream of passing at a single leap from this mean obscurity to the prestige of one who assists in the manipulation of great happenings; while one who mastered it to the point of genius — that one might dream of becoming himself the next Lenin....
A society so largely founded on material success and the rewards of individualism in a system of free competitive enterprise would be liable to underestimate both the intellectual content of the revolutionary thesis and the quality of the revolutionary mind that was evolving in a disaffected and envious academic world. At any rate, this society did, and from the revolutionary point of view that was one of the peculiar felicities — of the American opportunity....
Which of these brilliant young men in spectacles was of the cult and which was of the cabal — if there was a cabal — one never knew. Indeed, it was possible that they were not sure of it among themselves, a time having come when some were only playing with the thought of extremes while others were in deadly earnest, all making the same sounds. This was the beginning of mask and guise.
The scientific study of revolution included of course analysis of opportunity. First and always the master of revolutionary technic is an opportunist. He must know opportunity when he sees it in the becoming; he must know how to stalk it, how to let it ripen, how to adapt his means to the realities. The basic ingredients of opportunity are few; nearly always it is how they are mixed that matters. But the one indispensable ingredient is economic distress, and if there is enough of that the mixture will take care of itself....
[Talking about the Great Depression]...The pain, nevertheless, was very acute; and much worse than any actual hurt was a nameless fear, a kind of active despair, that assumed the proportions of a national psychosis.
Seizures of that kind were not unknown in American history. Indeed, they were characteristic of the American temperament. But never before had there been one so hard and never before had there been the danger that a revolutionary elite would be waiting to take advantage of it.
This revolutionary elite was nothing you could define as a party. It had no name, no habitat, no rigid line. The only party was the Communist Party, and it was included, but its attack was too obvious and its proletarianism too crude, and moreover, it was under the stigma of not belonging. Nobody could say that about the elite above. It did belong, it was eminently respectable, and it knew the American scene. What it represented was a quantity of bitter intellectual radicalism infiltrated from the top downward as a doctorhood of professors, writers, critics, analysts, advisers, administators, directors of research, and so on — a prepared revolutionary intelligence in spectacles. There was no plan to begin with. But there was a shibboleth that united them all: “Capitalism is finished.” There was one idea in which all differences could be resolved, namely, the idea of a transfer of power. For that a united front; after that, anything. And the wine of communion was a passion to play upon history with a scientific revolutionary technic.
The prestige of the elite was natural for many reasons; but it rested also upon one practical consideration. When the opportunity came a Gracchus would be needed. The elite could produce one. And that was something the Communist Party could not hope to do.
Here’s the short version:
Quentin Young (Democratic Socialists of America) and Peter Orris (Students for a Democratic Society) co-found the Physicians for a National Health Program to promote “single-payer health care” (government paid).
Quentin Young instructs his neighbor Obama regarding “single-payer health care”.
Illinois state Senator Alice Palmer, a known communist, brings Obama to Ayers house for a fund-raiser for Obama’s campaign for Illinois Senate. Alice Palmer introduced Obama as her successor. Quentin Young is in attendance.
Jan Schakowsky (D-IL and Democratic Socialists of America) serves as advisor to Obama’s campaign for US President.
While in prison for bank fraud Robert Creamer, Schakowsky’s husband, develops the strategy to sell “single-payer health care”
Obama and Obamacare are the product of communists, the Democratic Socialists of America, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Stanley Kurzt’s book “Radical-in-Chief” thoroughly documents Obama’s numerous connections with communists.
Thanks - sounds like the Kurtz book is pretty good. Sadly, most of us here already knew all of this. We can lay this on the next Democratic nominee(s), as they will no doubt push more of the same. I doubt they will try to portray obama as too far to the left.
Pass the info to those who do not know.
Giuliani is being attacked for stating the facts regarding Obama’s communist roots. Walker is being attacked for not condemning Giuliani. Don’t let the left get away with it.
Obama IS a commie. It’s about time someone stood up to him.
Giuliani gave a fantastic speech critical of Obama.
FROM "THE OBAMA FILE"...
RE: QUENTIN YOUNG
The primary figure who delivered Obama to the single-payer camp was Quentin Young, an 86-year-old retired physician who was a longtime friend and neighbor of Obama in Chicago. Young joined the Young Communist League as a teenager in the late 1930s. From the mid-1940s through the mid-1970s, he was closely associated with the Communist Party. In October 1968 he was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was probing the extent of his knowledge about the riots that had erupted at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago two months earlier. The Committee accused Young of belonging to the Bethune Club, an organization for communist doctors; the group was named after Norman Bethune, a communist physician who devoted his services to the totalitarian regime of Mao Zedong
Dr. Young was active in the radical movements of the Sixties and Seventies and led a small delegation to Communist North Vietnam in 1972. In the late 1970s, Young became associated with a Marxist organization known as the New American Movement, which was initially convened by Michael Lerner, an America-hating radical who counseled young people to explore the use of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs as portals to a greater comprehension of socialist principles.
In 1980 Young founded the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, a single-payer lobby group whose Board of Directors he chairs to this day. In 1982 Young helped establish the Democratic Socialists of America, which, as the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International, asserts that "many structures of our government and economy must be radically transformed." In 1987 Young co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), a single-payer advocacy organization where he currently serves as national coordinator. In PNHP’s view, government-run healthcare "should be financed by truly progressive taxation."
In 1995 Young attended the now-famous meeting at the Hyde Park home of former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, where Barack Obama was first introduced to influential locals as the hand-picked successor to Alice Palmer, a pro-Soviet radical who planned to vacate her Illinois State Senate seat in pursuit of a higher elected office. Young quickly became a friend and political ally of Obama, teaching the latter about the merits of single-payer healthcare.
In a 2009 interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, Young reminisced about the germination of his ideological kinship with the young Obama:
"Barack Obama, in those early days [as a state senator] -- influenced, I hope, by me and others -- categorically said single payer was the best way, and he would inaugurate it if he could get the support, meaning [Democratic] majorities in both houses, which he’s got, and the presidency, which he’s got. And he said that on more than one occasion…."
Another noteworthy influence on Obama’s views vis à vis healthcare has been Dr. Peter Orris, who co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program with Quentin Young. The son of a Communist Party member, Orris in the 1960s was a leader of Harvard University’s campus chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the New Leftist organization that aspired to overthrow America’s democratic institutions and remake the nation’s government in a Marxist image. He later joined the Communist Party (CP) for more than two decades, before ultimately shifting his allegiance to the CP splinter group, Committees of Correspondence, where he remains a prominent figure to this day.
http://www.theobamafile.com/_associates/QuentinYoung.htm
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From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: Quentin Young
An admirer of Fidel Castro, Young is proud that two of his children traveled to Cuba as members of the Venceremos Brigades to cut sugar cane and pick oranges. (The Venceremos Brigades were organized by Castro's Cuban intelligence agency, which trained "brigadistas" in guerrilla warfare techniques, including the use of arms and explosives.)
* Longtime supporter of communist causes
* Was active in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s
* Helped establish the Democratic Socialists of America
* Co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program, an advocacy organization that lobbies on behalf of a single-payer, government-run healthcare system
* Friend and supporter of Barack Obama
* Longtime friend of Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers
Lots more at the link:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2439
Thanks for the info.
ping
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