Health Services for All

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Eileen Lamont, nurse and representative of the Women's City Club, Margaret Lyman, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at NYU Medical Center and Director of Out-Patient Department for Pediatrics at Bellevue Hospital, and Harry Becker. Professor of Community Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine discuss the state of helath care in 1970s New York. Topics discussed include Lyman's studies of health infomatics and the use of computers, Becker's studies on the financing of health care, the single-payer system, and the use of paraprofessionals in care for the young and the ill. Gloria Chapman of New York University moderates.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 92519

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