WHAT:
Dr. Oliver Fein, President of Physicians for a National Healthcare Program to speak on
"The Rationale for Single Payer Health Care"
WHEN:
5:30 - 7:00 p.m. Friday
March 26
WHERE:
University of Kentucky
Room 014 Wethington Building
School of Health Sciences
900 S. Limestone St.
Lexington
Click here to view & print a campus map, The Wethington Building (#200 on the map) is at the corner of S. Limestone and Rose Street.
Park in parking structure # 8 (#601 on the map) at the corner of S. Limestone and Transcript) about 100 yards from the Wethington Building. Parking will cost $.75 per hour. After 5 p.m. you may be able to find free on-street parking on Transcript or Conn Terrace.
If you are going north on S. Limestone* the Wethington Building will loom before you; it has a half circular shape that reminds one of the bow of the Titanic. Cross Limestone and go to the base of the bow. Look for signage to guide you to the lecture hall in 014. You'll notice two sets of stairs on either side of the center of the bow. Take either set down, enter the door, and look for the closest door (to the right if you entered from the left-hand stairs; to the left if you entered from the right-hand stairs). You'll enter a foyer. You'll see doors to room 014. (For directions for handicapped access see below.)
* Lexington street names have a confusing tendency to change without warning. To get to the UK campus from the south, take Nicholasville Road. Nicholasville Road become S. Limestone Street at the UK campus.
Free & open to the public
Click here to view & print the event flyer.
DETAILS:
Dr. Oliver Fein, president of the 17,000-member Physicians for a National Healthcare Program (PNHP), will be speaking in Lexington on Friday 3/26. Dr. Fein will review the limitations of the health care reform legislation that President Obama signed into law on 3/23 and make the case for Single Payer Health Care, also known as Expanded and Improved Medicare for All.
The talk is part of three days of events Thursday through Saturday. On Thursday he will give a similar free public talk in Louisville. Dr. Fein will also be attending private sessions with media groups, labor leaders, clergy, doctors, medical students and healthcare activists.
Speaking of the reform just passed by Congress, Dr. Fein said, “The legislation is a handout to the private health insurance industry which makes billions in profits by denying claims, canceling coverage and raising premiums. I respectfully disagree with the administration’s approach of mandating individuals to buy private health insurance.”
Dr. Garrett Adams, Louisville physician and PNHP president-elect, who has helped top organized these events, said, “The current health reform bill is deplorably wide of the mark of genuine reform.” He said real reform will not happen “until our government provides not-for-profit national health insurance for all residents.”
Because the politicians neglected to include Single Payer in the discussions right from the beginning, Dr. Fein said, the people will end up being under-insured, paying high costs in deductibles and co-pays, and with few restraints on holding down medical costs or insurance premiums.
Drs. Fein and Adams both said that if insurance companies were deleted from healthcare reform, there would be enough money—about $400 billion per year--to solve other problems such as inclusion of the present 45 million uninsured people.
Accessible Directions:
From outside of the Wethington Building (at the base of the "bow") go up Rose Street until you see the first street-level door. Through this door you will soon see the offices of the College of Health Sciences. Look for the nearest elevator. Take it down one floor to the basement. Follow the signs to Dr. Fein's talk in lecture hall 014.
SPONSORS:
Physicians for a National Healthcare Program
Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Richard Mitchell
(859) 327-6277
Janet Tucker
(859) 389-8575
Dr. Garrett Adams
(502) 895-8847
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