Note to editors and news directors: Journalists are welcome to attend the summit. For assistance with coverage or to arrange interviews, call the CSULA Public Affairs office in advance at (323) 343-3050.
Is universal medical coverage
the solution for the uninsured?
Los Angeles, CA – Universal medical coverage rises to the national forefront with recent presidential candidate debates. How can health insurance be affordable for all citizens? On Wednesday, Apr. 16, Cal State L.A. will present a Health Care Summit to explore the questions of who are the uninsured, why are they uninsured and what the policy options are that might address the problem with the uninsured population.
The summit, entitled “No Health Insurance: A National, California, and CSULA Crisis,” will begin 3 p.m. at Cal State L.A.’s Golden Eagle Ballroom.
Keynote addresses will be presented by Rick Brown, director of the Center for Health Policy Research at UCLA, and Walter Zelman, professor and director of the Health Science Program at Cal State L.A.
Dr. Zelman is an expert on California government and politics and health policy and markets, specifically on the uninsured, insurance and managed care, and health care costs. He has published two books on health policy, many articles on government and California politics, and multiple op-eds on government and politics, health policy and health insurance. He was a senior health care adviser to President Bill Clinton in the early 1990s and a special deputy in the California Department of Insurance in 1991-92.
A nationally-recognized policy analyst, Dr. Brown directs the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research which is widely regarded as single best source of data on the uninsured in California. He is also a professor at the UCLA School of Public Health and the principal investigator for the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), one of the nation’s largest ongoing health surveys.
Beatrice Yorker, dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Cal State L.A., says, “The large and growing number of uninsured individuals in the nation, the state, and here in the CSULA community constitutes a true crisis. The summit is aimed at explaining the causes of that crisis and the options for addressing it.”
The summit is cosponsored by Cal State L.A.’s Associated Students, Inc., College of Health and Human Services, and Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute for Public Affairs.
WHAT:
Cal State L.A. presents a Health Care Summit, entitled “No Health Insurance: A National, California, and CSULA Crisis.”
WHEN:
Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2008, 3 p.m.
WHERE:
Golden Eagle Ballroom, Cal State L.A. campus. For directions, see http://www.calstatela.edu/misc/trans
INFO:
Free to the public. Call the Associated Students, Inc. at Cal State L.A., (323) 343-4780.
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