For Immediate Release: October 3, 2002
Contact: Tom Krattenmaker
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SWARTHMORE, Pa. (Oct. 3)-- Former Democratic presidential nominee Michael S. Dukakis addressed "The Uninsured: Forty-two Million and Counting" at Swarthmore College tonight in the College's annual Thomas B. McCabe Memorial Lecture.
Noting that presidents from Truman to Clinton have tried unsuccessfully to create a universal health care system -- and that every other advanced nation in the world has one -- Dukakis asked: "When are we going to do something about this? When are we finally going to make the basic decision that all Americans deserve basic health insurance?"
Dukakis, a three-term governor of Massachussetts, is currently Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University, where his teaching and research focus on public policy, health care policy, and American politics.
Dukakis, a member of Swarthmore's Class of 1955, last spoke on campus seven years ago on the occasion of his 40th class reunion. He received an honorary degree from the College in 1975.
Dukakis' lecture was sponsored by the McCabe Memorial Fund, which each year brings to campus a speaker with a distinguished career in public service. The lecture series is named for Thomas B. McCabe, a member of the Class of 1915 and generous College benefactor who served under President Truman as the chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and later as public governor of the New York Stock Exchange.
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