Healthcare in the USA: Are we ready for reform once again?
Date: August 1st, 2016
Time: 3:00 – 4:30 pm
UPDATED Venue: Collaborative Live Sciences Building, Room 3003A, 2730 SW Moody Avenue Portland, OR 97201
Co-sponsors: City Club of Portland, Health and Public Safety Issue Led Forum; Oregon Physicians for a National Health Program
Registration: No charge. Seating is limited. Please register at www.pdxcityclub.org/calendar_day.asp?date=8/1/2016&event=435
Panelists:
- Donald M. Berwick, MD, President Emeritus, Institute for Healthcare Improvement and former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- John Kitzhaber, MD, former Governor of Oregon
- Alisha Moreland, MD, executive director, Avel Gordly Center for Healing and Assistant Professor of Public Psychiatry, OHSU School of Medicine.
- Paul Gorman, MD (moderator), Assistant Dean for Rural Medical Education and Professor of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology and Medicine at OHSU School of MedicineSix years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, the US still provides the world’s most expensive healthcare with the poorest public health outcomes of any industrialized country. Now in an election year, healthcare has returned to the public eye, with Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders making universal care a central part of his platform, calling for comprehensive healthcare for everyone within our borders. Is this plan feasible? Is it afford-able? Is it desirable?Three highly respected physicians, Donald M. Berwick, John Kitzhaber, and Alisha Moreland, all with experience in state and national healthcare policy, offer their observations on how this debate, and Senator Sanders’ single payer advocacy can advance the aims of better care to more people for less money in our country.
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