a panel discussion

November 11, 7:00-9:00 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.