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Health Care Reform – Meeting in Lexington
December 9, 2006 @ 9:30 am
Health Care Reform in Kentucky, the Single Payer Solution
A free public conference for physicians and other health care providers, public officials, policy makers, and citizens describing the Single Payer National Health Plan, why we need it, and what it will mean to Kentucky
140 East Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky
Saturday, December 9, 2006
9:30 a.m.
Program
9:30 Registration (Coffee and pastries)
10:00 Welcome: Garrett Adams, MD, MPH, Coordinator, Physicians for a National Health Program-Kentucky
10:05 The Moral and Religious Basis for Health Care Reform, Rev. Dr. Albert M. Pennybacker, National Chairman, Clergy and Laity Network, Lexington
10:30 Health Care Reform, an Expression of Values,Gilbert Friedell, MD, Director Emeritus, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky Medical Center
10:55 The Physicians Proposal for a National Health Plan, Has Canada got it right? Jason Kelley, MD, Chief of Medicine, VA Medical Center, Louisville
11:20 Organizing Community Action for Single Payer Health Care, Kay Tillow, Director of Organization, Nurses Professional Organization and Coordinator, Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care, Louisville
11:45 Panel and floor discussion
12:15 Adjourn for lunch
12:30 Working lunch – further discussion about Single Payer issues, legislation, and community organizing. (Lunch at Natasha’s Café, 112 Esplanade, Lexington, at cost.)
For more information email: info@kyhealthcare.org.
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-Kentucky and Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare