California Physicians' Alliance Records, ca. 1988-1995

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California Physicians' Alliance Records, ca. 1988-1995

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Physicians for a National Health Program.

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AFL-CIO. Sacramento Central Labor Council.

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Margolin, Burt.

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Roberti, David

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Petris, Nicholas

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Nicholas Petris, commonly known as Nick, was born in Oakland, California in 1923. He attended Oakland public schools and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1943 with a B.A. in journalism. After service as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army in the European theatre from 1944-1947, he went to Stanford University law school, graduating in 1948 and passing the bar in 1949. He married the former Anna Vlahos of San Leandro in 1951 and became active in the Greek community and in local...

Grumbach, Kevin.

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Gray Panthers (Berkeley, Calif.)

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Health Access.

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Bodenheimer, Thomas.

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Trachtenberg, Alan I.

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California Physicians' Alliance.

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The California Physicians' Alliance (CaPA) was started in May, 1987 as an organized group of physicians committed to the struggle for a single-payer health care plan, at both the state and federal level. The director of the group from 1987 to 1991 was Michael Pincus. He worked in conjunction with a council of presidents including Dr. Kevin Grumbach and Dr. Tom Bodenheimer. CaPA was a member-group of Health Access (HA) and Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and worked closely with th...