Prof. Theodore Marmor, nationally renown scholar on Medicare, explains how the Affordable Care Act originated and what we can expect from it in the future. Will it provide what we want from health care reform? Will it even survive politically? Dr. Marmor will apply decades of research on health care policy to analyze the most important health care legislation since Medicare.

Speaker: Theodore R. Marmor, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and Management at Yale University School of Management, in New Haven, Connecticut.

Topic: The Obama Reform Experience: Origins, Operations, and Implications

Date: Thursday, October 22^nd, 2015

Time: 7:00 pm

Place: The Collaborative Life Sciences Building, Room 3003A, 2730 SW Moody Avenue, Portland, OR 97201.

Pre-registration: Encouraged but not required, at the City Club of Portland Event website: http://www.pdxcityclub.org/calendar_day.asp?date=10/22/2015&event=332

Collaborating organizations:

• Division of Management, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, OHSU-PSU MBA in Healthcare Management
• City Club of Portland Healthcare Member-Led Forum
• Oregon Physicians for a National Health Program
• We Can Do Better
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement, PSU & OHSU Open School Chapter
• Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University, PhD in Health Systems and Policy