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The Politics of Healthcare Reform - A Panel Discussion PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 09 November 2009 17:27

November 11th, 7-9 PM

NYU Silver Center, 100 Washington Sq. East, Room 703
  • Do the current proposals represent real reform? Are they worth supporting?
  • Why isn’t single-payer a part of the national debate over health care reform?
  • Does corporate lobbying represent the main obstacle to more substantial reform?
  • What can we do to push for deep, lasting reform to our flawed health care system?
  • What might a real universal health care system look like in the US?
Featuring:
  • Marie Gottschalk, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania and author of The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business and the Politics of Health Care in the United States
  • Ajamu Sankofa, Founding member of the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition (PHIMGC), former trial lawyer and human rights public policy specialist.
  • Andrew Coates, M.D., Secretary of the Albany chapter of the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), teacher at Albany Med ical College, and practicing doctor of internal medicine in Albany, NY.
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