Critical Condition: A panel discussion focused on health care reform in the United States
March 24, 2010 7pm
Daniel Family Commons, 3rd floor of the Usdan University Center
The Usdan Common Connections Committee is happy to invite you to a panel discussion focusing on the current efforts to reform the health care system in the United States. Much of President Obama’s first year in Office and the 
first year of the Democrat controlled Congress has been focused on drafting a comprehensive health care reform bill. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives have passed their own bills, however both have come under intense scrutiny from many different stakeholders. The state of Connecticut is also on the forefront of reform efforts at the state level and the panel will include policy experts and frontline personnel working to make Connecticut a model for the rest of the country to follow.
The panel will be comprised of Damien Sheehan-Connor, Wesleyan faculty in economics, Jill Zorn, Program Officer at Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, Dr. Michael Grey, Chief of Medicine at the Hospital of Central Connecticut, and Elizabeth Wiley, National Secretary, American Medical Student Association and Physicians for a National Health Program member and George Washington University School of Medicine student.
The panel will cover a broad range of topics and will debate approaches and outcomes in the development of the legislation currently being considered. The panel will also take questions and will engage the audience throughout the evening.
There will be a complimentary pizza dinner at the start of the program.