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Advocates; Should the federal government guarantee comprehensive medical care for all Americans?
Part of The Advocates.
03/30/1978
Moderator: Marilyn Berger Advocate: Patricia Butler Advocate: William Rusher Witnesses: Max Fine Executive Director, Committee for National Health Insurance Bert Seidman Economist, Director AFL-CIO, Dept. of Social Security Cong. Philip Crane (R-Ill.) House Ways and Means, Health subcommittee Walter McClure, Ph.D. Health Policy Analyst
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- Series
- Advocates
- Program
- Should the federal government guarantee comprehensive medical care for all Americans?
- Program Number
504
- Series Description
A SERIES OF DEBATES with a moderator facilitating the discussion of national and international issues - using advocates who would introduce witnesses to support their point of view. Debates recorded at Boston's Faneuil Hall. Moderators included: Michael Dukakis; Marilyn Berger; Michael Harrington, Robert Maynard. (Premiered October, 1969; conceived by Prof. Roger Fisher.) Other participants included Barney Frank, Avi Nelson, Antonin Scalia, S.I. Hayakawa, Paul Simon, Albert Shankar, Richard Bolling, Pete McCloskey, Chester Crocker, John Anderson, Elmo Zumwalt, George Ball, John Kenneth Galbraith, William Colby, Eleanor Smeal, Phyllis Schlafly, Sam Ervin, Laurence Tribe, Daniel Schorr, Orrin Hatch, Morris Udall, Edward Kennedy, George McGovern, Jake Garn, Paul Tsongas, Alan Dershowitz. Series release date: 1969
- Program Description
Moderator: Marilyn Berger Advocate: Patricia Butler Advocate: William Rusher Witnesses: Max Fine – Executive Director, Committee for National Health Insurance Bert Seidman – Economist, Director AFL-CIO, Dept. of Social Security Cong. Philip Crane – (R-Ill.) House Ways and Means, Health subcommittee Walter McClure, Ph.D. – Health Policy Analyst Produced by WGBH at Faneuil Hall. Bears WGBH copyright.
- Duration
00:59:39
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Rusher, William A., 1923-2011
- Crane, Philip M., 1930-
- Berger, Marilyn
- Seidman, Bert
- McClure, Walter J.
- Locations
- Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts
- Genres
- Debate
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Social Issues
- Contributors
- Butler, Patricia (Guest)
- Crane, Philip (Guest)
- McClure, Walter (Guest)
- Rusher, William (Guest)
- Berger, Marilyn (Moderator)
- Fine, Max (Guest)
- Seidman, Bert (Guest)
- Publication Information
- Supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.
- Citation
- Chicago: “Advocates; Should the federal government guarantee comprehensive medical care for all Americans?,” 03/30/1978, GBH Archives, accessed April 24, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_8A341FA539E74DB2863FE3F5C78EC72A.
- MLA: “Advocates; Should the federal government guarantee comprehensive medical care for all Americans?.” 03/30/1978. GBH Archives. Web. April 24, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_8A341FA539E74DB2863FE3F5C78EC72A>.
- APA: Advocates; Should the federal government guarantee comprehensive medical care for all Americans?. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_8A341FA539E74DB2863FE3F5C78EC72A