2002 Green Party candidate for State Representative, former state representative to GPUS, CT

Available to speak on the following subjects:
Universal, Single Payer Health Insurance

Bio
John R. Battista, M.D. is a practicing physician in New Milford, Connecticut. He is the President of the Connecticut Coalition for Universal Health Care, a leading organization supporting single payer, universal health insurance in Connecticut. He is the author of the Connecticut Health Care Security Act to enact a Canadian style health insurance program for the state of Connecticut. Dr. Battista has extensive experience in speaking about universal health insurance throughout Connecticut. He has written extensively on universal health insurance in newspapers and web-based publications. He has testified as an expert on universal health insurance before several Connecticut legislative committees and served as a consultant on universal health insurance for two Green Party presidential candidates.

Dr. Battista received his undergraduate training in Psychology at Princeton University, graduating in 1968. He received his medical education at Stanford University, graduating in 1972. He completed his residency in Psychiatry at the University of California Medical School in 1976. He was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California Davis from 1976 to 1982 where he directed the university outpatient clinic and served as the Director of Residency Training. He has been in private practice in New Milford, Connecticut since 1983 after assuming the practice of M. Scott Peck, M.D., best known as the author of The Road Less Traveled.

Dr. Battista has been active in the Connecticut Green Party since 1999. He has represented the Connecticut Green Party on the National Coordinating Committee. In 2002 he ran for Connecticut State Legislature on the Green Party ticket, receiving 31% of the vote.

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