FIX IT takes a hard look at how our dysfunctional healthcare system negatively impacts on the nation's health, discourages physicians and hurts the bottom line of our businesses and national economy. Fix It proposes a common sense solution to the out-of-control cost, while ensuring full access to quality healthcare for every American.
Our Health Care System continues to be discussed and debated.
How can we make it better while assuring affordable, quality health care?
The Sierra Renaissance Society is hosting an informative, community conversation about our health care system.
Did you know that our US Health Care Bill was over $3 Trillion last year!! And it will continue to grow at an astronomical rate if we don’t do something about it. We have the most expensive health care in the industrialized world and many people are spending more, getting less, while paying higher co-pays and deductibles.
Our current system of delivery and payment is damaging our economy, hurting our businesses and costing a lot more than any other country, while not giving us better health outcomes. We believe that many people have concerns with our health care system and that it can be a non-partisan issue that reaches across the current political divide.
This program will :
- Review our current health care system and what California is doing to maintain and improve it.
- Discuss how our current system is fragmented and wasteful with special interests and corporations blocking improvement.
- Summarize the commitment of the State of California Legislature to get to “health care for all” in our state, including SB562.
We will watch a short movie, discuss our health care system and introduce how single payer would simplify it - Fix It: Health Care at the Tipping Point
Get your questions answered. It is important to be informed about what is going on with our health care. Share this important community conversation with your neighbors
Presenter’s Biographical Information
Maureen Dion-Perry MPH, is retired after 40 years of work in our health care system in the areas of preventive medicine, health education and quality improvement. She worked with Kaiser Permanente for 20 years and Marshall Medical Center for 20 years.
Jen Flory, Esq, Lawyer and health care policy advocate with the Western Center on Law and Poverty. Her work is focused on protecting and improving the Affordable Care Act, which affects everyone’s health insurance. During her career as a lawyer she has extensive experience litigating cases, drafting legislation, training advocates and educating policy makers. She has recently received UCS’s Alumni Public Interest Lawyer off the Year Award.
Keith McCallin, PA-C, physicians assistant and health care reform advocate, works with the Campaign for aHealthy California and Physicians for a National Health Program