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Geri Jenkins

Geri Jenkins, Co-President of the California Nurses Association, discusses Single Payer / Medicare for All – An Economic Stimulus Plan for the Nation. Ms. Jenkins describes how a single-payer system would create 2.8 million jobs and more than $300 billion in new revenues to the U.S. econnomy. A single-payer system would provide health insurance to all Americans, including children as well as families below the poverty line.

The California Nurses Association / National Nurses Organizing Committee is the nation’s largest union of Registered Nurses. CNA was the driving force behind California’s law guaranteeing a safe ratio of nurses to patients on every unit, a law that has saved thousands of lives and helped ease the state’s nursing shortage by drawing RNs back into critical-care settings. CNA is also the nation’s leading proponent of guaranteed healthcare on the single-payer model, which proposes expanding Medicare to cover all Americans.

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Dr. Ana Malinow

Dr. Malinow is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and full-time faculty at the Ben Taub General Hospital Pediatric Emergency and Ambulatory Center, located in Houston, TX. Dr. Malinow’s experiences with the underserved in Cleveland and Houston motivated her in 2002 to co-found Health Care for All Texas, and to promote single-payer universal health care through education and policy setting.

Dr. Malinow has been a guest speaker on health care reform in local and national lectures, and has been featured on multiple television and radio programs. She is the author of numerous Op-Ed articles and is past president of Physicians for a National Health Program. Physicians for a National Health Program has more than 15,000 members and chapters across the United States.

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