HEALTHCARE REFORM PUBLIC FORUM
When: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 6:30 – 8 pm
Where: St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center in Boise, Anderson Center Conference Center in the Mountain State’s Tumor Institute Building, Rooms Ada 1, 2 & 3.
Who is invited: general public, medical community, politicians, local leaders interested in healthcare reform.
Speakers/Panelists
Gary Krouth, MD. Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, St. Luke's Health System
Pamela G. Lewis-O’Connor, BSN. Nurse & business owner, Infection Prevention and Control Consultants
Uwe Reischl, MD, PhD. Professor of Health Sciences at Boise State University. Public health and health policy researcher and teacher.
Louis Schlickman, MD. Primary care internal medicine physician in Meridian, health care reform activist with Idaho Health Care for All
Karl N. Watts, MD. Member of the Governor’s Select Committee on Health Care; Private practice family physician at Genesis Medical Center in Boise; Founder and President of Genesis World Mission ; Medical Director of Garden City Community Clinic
Moderator
Stephanie Witt, Ph.D. Professor of Political Science at Boise State University; Director of the BSU Center for Public Policy
Opening Remarks and Introductions
E. Gregory Thompson, M.D. Primary care physician in Boise, member of the Idaho Medical Association Committee for the Uninsured
Issues on the agenda
1) The importance of healthcare reform and universal coverage
2) Options for healthcare reform medically, financially, and politically
3) Improving healthcare quality and reducing cost
4) Patient Centered Medical Home
5) Employer-based health insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid
6) The public option, insurance co-ops, public utility model, comparative effectiveness research, advanced directive planning, single-payer, foreign models of health care