You are warmly invited to a special interactive community discussion:

 

 

“American Health Care Policy and Politics:

The Promise and Perils of Reform”

 

How can understanding the lessons of the past

guide our reform efforts in the present and future?

 

Tuesday, July 15th

 

7 to 8:30 PM

 

6:45 to 7 PM Social Gathering

 

Brighton Memorial Library

2300 Elmwood Avenue

 

Discussion facilitated by Ted Brown, PhD,

Professor of History, Community & Preventive Medicine, and

Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester

 

Free and Open to the Public

 

No Registration Required

 

To prepare for this discussion, participants are strongly encouraged to download and read the following article:

Health Care in Crisis: The Drive for Health Reform in Canada and the United States

“After more than 30 years of talk about an American medical world in critical condition, little progress has been made in the search for a major policy change. The United States is now the only major industrial nation without a universal or near-universal health care program.”          --  Theodore R. Marmor

 

 

“Health care represents the most impressive piece of social policy in Canada.”  -- Antonia Maioni