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.
Suffer from low-context news? Here’s Tuesday’s Rx:
Health Care Reform: ‘Can Obama Succeed Where Many Have Failed?’
Oct. 20 panel at Cal State L.A. presents experts in
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.
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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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