Town Hall Forum: Health Care Access and Cost—September 20th

09/11/2005

The Olmsted County DFL invites you to -


A Town Hall Forum:


HEALTH CARE ACCESS AND COST


With Health Policy Expert Kip Sullivan and

Mark Liebow, M.D., M.P.H Consultant in Medicine, Mayo Clinic

Where:  Government Center Board Room
201 4th St SE
Rochester, MN

When:  Tuesday, September 20th
7 PM

The Town Hall Forum will offer a unique opportunity to learn about the
health care crisis. The presentation will focus on making health care
affordable, accessible, and accountable as related to cost containment.
Discussion including a question and answer session will follow.

The forum is open to the public and we invite all to attend and participate
in this timely debate.


About the Speakers:

Kip Sullivan, a Rochester native and one of Minnesota¹s leading advocates
for universal health care, has spent the past two decades researching the
U.S. health care system. He has a JD from Harvard Law School and has written
nearly 100 articles on health policy; many of which appeared in national
newspapers, magazines and journals such as the Los Angeles Times, The
Nation, the New England Journal Of Medicine, the New York Times. He is a
member of the steering committee of the Minnesota Universal Health Care
Coalition which includes the Minnesota Farmers Union, the League of Women
Voters, MAPE, the Minnesota Nurses Association, and Physicians for a
National Health Program.

Dr. Mark Liebow has been teaching, writing and speaking about health
policy for over thirty years. He earned an MPH from the Department of Health
Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has been
chair of the Health Policy Committee for the Society of General Internal
Medicine 1998-2001 and has served on policy committees for several
professional organizations. He has been a general internist at Mayo Clinic
for eleven years and is an Assistant Professor at the Mayo Clinic College of
Medicine. He is a member of Physicians for a National Health Program.