Community health care and Medicaid cutbacks (Episode 5 of 6)

Episode Title:
Community health care and Medicaid cutbacks (Episode 5 of 6)
PRA Archive #: 
BB3817.05
Description: 

Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 5: Community health care and Medicaid cutbacks. Discussion of the challenges of providing care to the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who have no other medical resources, and the need for a new healthcare system that can provide dignified, continuing, and comprehensive care to those who must rely on public medicine. Voices heard in this program include Dr. Philip Hennig, director of ambulatory care at Metropolitan Hospital in Manhattan; Dr. Howard Brown, former New York City health services administrator; Columbia economist Robin Elliott; Robb Burlage, head of the Health Policy Advisory Center; Victor Soloman of Harlem CORE; Mrs. Gloria Martinez of the lower east side; Columbia medical student Dick Clapp; New York state senator Seymour Thaler; economist Robin Elliott; Ramon Velez, director of the Hunts Point Multi-service Center in the Bronx; hospitals commissioner Joseph Terenzio; and unidentified mothers and community members of Harlem.

Original tape box image: 
Station: 
Date Recorded on: 
circa July-August 1968
Date Broadcast on: 
WBAI, October 2, 1968
Item duration: 
1 reel (60 min.)
Total duration (All reels): 
6 reels (ca. 356 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono.
Contributor: 
Role: 
Producer
Contributor: 
Role: 
Producer
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archives, 1968
Rights Summary: 
RESTRICTED. Permissions, licensing requests, Curriculum Initiative, Campus Campaign and all other inquiries should be directed to: Mark Torres, Archives Director, 800-735-0230, Mark@PacificaRadioArchives.org
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This recording has been digitally preserved as part of Pacifica's American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 grant preservation project, and is available for research and reference . Please contact the archives via telephone: 818-506-1077 or email:  americanwomen at pacificaradioarchives dot org for information on how to obtain a copy of this program. Thank you.



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