Note to editors and news directors:
Journalists are welcome to attend the panel discussion. To arrange
interviews, call the CSULA Public Affairs office in advance at (323)
343-3050.
Oct. 20 panel at Cal State L.A. presents experts in
Suffer from low-context news? Here’s Tuesday’s Rx:
Health Care Reform:
‘Can Obama Succeed Where Many Have Failed?’
health policy, hospital finances, economic impacts
WHAT: “Health Care
Reform: Can Obama Succeed Where So Many Have Failed?” panel discussion
WHEN: Tuesday, Oct.
20, 2009, 3:30-5 p.m.
WHERE: Los
Angeles Room C, University-Student Union, Cal State L.A.
For directions, see
http://www.calstatela.edu/misc/trans.
INFO: Call the
Office of Research and Development at Cal State L.A.,
(323) 343-3798.
Los Angeles, CA –
The
U.S. Senate Finance Committee just approved
a major reorganization of the country’s health care system.
So? Are we now closer to
President Barack Obama’s goal of providing more
affordable medical coverage for all
Americans? Is this legislation the right
prescription? What are the political and economic diagnoses?
A trio of experts will offer perspectives Tuesday, Oct. 20, when
Cal State L.A. presents
“Health Care Reform: Can Obama Succeed Where So Many Have Failed?”
The free program will be from 3:30-5 p.m. in the
University-Student Union’s Los Angeles Room C.
President Obama’s health care plan seeks
to expand coverage, lower costs, improve care and ensure that
individuals are not denied coverage or care
due to a pre-existing condition
or illness.
The panel speakers include CSULA faculty members Philip Romero,
dean of the College of Business and Economics; Mary Anne Schultz,
assistant professor of nursing; and Walter Zelman, director of
the Health Science Program. Beatrice Yorker, dean of the
University’s College of Health and Human Services, will serve as
moderator.
Romero is formerly a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover
Institution and a senior fellow in business and economics at the Pacific
Research Institute, with expertise drawn from
his academic, governmental, business and research experience.
Formerly a chief economist to then-Governor Pete Wilson of California,
he is an expert on the current and future state of the economy, and its
particular implications for early-stage
and small businesses.
Schultz, an expert on clinical economics, has more than 30
years of teaching, consulting and hospital
bedside practice in adult acute-care. She has authored many journal
articles, including “The Association of Hospital Financial
Characteristics to Mortality and other Adverse Outcomes” in Nursing
Administration Quarterly, and a book chapter, “Microeconomics and
Cost Accounting in the Hospital Firm,” in Dunne-Taylor’s Financial
Management for the Nurse Manager.
Zelman is an expert on California government and politics and health
policy and markets, focusing specifically on the uninsured, insurance
and managed care, and health care costs.
He has published two books on health policy, many articles
and op-eds on 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.
An American Academy of Nursing fellow, Yorker is licensed as a registered nurse and is a clinical nurse specialist in child and adolescent psychiatric nursing. She also serves on the American Hospital Association’s Safe Nursing Care work group and the editorial boards of eight journals. She is an expert on violence prevention; child abuse; and forensic, gerontological and psychiatric nursing.
The event is co-sponsored by Cal State L.A.’s Office of Research and Development and Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. For details, call (323) 343-3798.
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