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Free Arizona Health Forum on March 3 at UMC

by on Feb. 25, 2012, under Health, Life

Note that Dr. Richard Carmona is the keynote speaker at UMC’s DuVal Auditorium at 1 p.m., with panel discussions later at Roy P. Drachman Hall, 1295 N. Martin Ave. Dr. Carmona was the 17th Surgeon General of the U.S. and is currently a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in AZ.

Response to Dr. Carmona’s address “A National Strategy for Health Care” will be done by Dr. J. Lyle Bootman, UA Dean of the College of Pharmacy.

Ongoing Health & Wellness Fair: 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. also at Drachman Hall.

Registration deadline is next Wed. Feb. 29, go online to www.azhealthforum.org or call 520-477-1093. All events are free, and parking is free on the surface lots around UMC on Saturdays.

Learn the facts vs. the myths about how changes in health care programs, laws and policies can and will impact their lives and our economy.
Be better able to Evaluate alternative policy options being considered by Lawmakers.
Be Enabled to make better informed decisions about their own health care.
Be encouraged to Participate in the dialogue about improving health care in their own communities.

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  • Prickly_Pear

    UMC?

    • Carolyn_Classen

      University Medical Center or UA Medical Center

  • chetdude

    I was under the impression from (their) materials and again from Dr.
    Carmona’s Keynote that we were being asked to “Participate in the
    dialogue about improving health care in (our) own communities.”

    Unfortunately, that promise was abandoned from the outset.  I was dismayed when during the breakout session on costs we were subjected to a facile, factually challenged, one-sided advertisement for the status-quo, the United States’ For-Profit Sick Care system.  This mutated evolution in “health care delivery” has been abandoned by EVERY developed nation as being unworkable and antithetical to the Public’s health.

    It would have been WONDERFUL to have been able to have a rational
    discussion of the merits/demerits of our existing, failing health care
    delivery and financing system, how and why other countries do it much
    better and together craft a pathway to enable us to join the healthy
    developed nations with a sustainable, affordable, effective new system
    of heath promotion.

    I look forward to participating in such an effort if it ever happens.

    • Carolyn_Classen

      We didn’t have time to go to the break out discussions, but I didn’t have much hope in the ability of us customers to participate in these discussions about access, quality, or rising costs in this complicated health care system of insurance companies, employers, doctors, hospitals, etc.

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