[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 18, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1338-E1339]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR. QUENTIN YOUNG

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                       HON. JANICE D. SCHAKOWSKY

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 18, 2013

  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor my friend and 
hero, Dr. Quentin Young, and to wish him a very happy 90th birthday. 
Quentin Young is the most cheerful, indefatigable, self-confident, 
unrelenting and optimistic warrior for justice that I have ever known. 
He is a tireless activist for health care justice, social justice, and 
equality.
  My physician (until he retired without my permission) and friend, 
Quentin has been the nationally recognized, erudite and silver-tongued 
spokesperson and irrepressible cheerleader for a single-payer national 
health care system for the last many decades. He coined the phrase'' 
Everybody in, Nobody out.''
  Literally ``walking the walk'', Quentin Young walked the state of 
Illinois advocating for universal health care with now Governor Pat 
Quinn. He was doctor, friend and advisor to Mayor Harold Washington, 
and personal physician to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during his

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visits to Chicago. Quentin never missed a chance to weigh in on what is 
now known as Obamacare.
  Dr. Young is Chairman of Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, a 
group that he founded in 1980 to promote social justice and challenge 
inequities in health and health care. He is also the national 
coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program. He served as 
chairman for the Department of Internal Medicine at Cook County 
Hospital in Chicago during the 1970's and early 1980's, where he 
established the Department of Occupational Medicine. In 1998, Dr. Young 
served as President of the American Public Health Association, and in 
1997 he was inducted as a Master of the American College of Physicians. 
In 2010, Dr. Young was appointed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn as the 
Illinois' Public Health Advocate.
  A renaissance man, Quentin Young is a great supporter of the arts and 
hosted his own radio show on WBEZ--Chicago area's PBS station. I am 
honored to call him a treasured friend and to be among the legions of 
people, young and old, who have relied on him as a mentor and for whom 
he is a leader and example of how to live a meaningful and spirited 
life. His work is making the world a healthier and better place. Happy 
Birthday, Dr. Quentin Young.

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