- 10/18/2012 by Andrea Sears (WBAI)

President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney are both attending the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan tonight.  A group of doctors in lab coats and nurses in scrubs, along with seniors, disability rights activists and health care advocates, are gathering outside the hotel to deliver a message to the contenders.  WBAI’s Andrea Sears spoke with Doctor Elizabeth Rosenthal of Physicians for a National Health Program.