The seminar will cover what the Congressional Budget Office continues to ignore in its estimates: the significant savings that will accrue from the provision of basic primary and preventive care for the general population.
We are awaiting word from the economists who were invited, and should be able to announce the final speaker panel within this week.
In terms of dates/locations, we are aiming for mid-September at a downtown San Francisco location. Several videographers have already stepped forward to provide their services, so the event can be distributed via youtube and vimeo. These videographers have pointed out that we can always use more cameras on site, so please feel free to contact me if you would like to join the other videographers in recording the event.
Thanks for the notice.
ReplyDeleteI would like to attend.
As an econ major and retired business owner, I like to see good value received for money spent.
With that in mind, I hope the question, "What value is contributed by insurance companies in providing health care?
They are strictly middlemen with profit as their objective. They are not licensed to practise medicine and do not.They can provide no actual health care at all. None!
The obvious question to be answered but which is so widley evaded by politicians and the news media is, why then are we paying insurance companies for health care they are not licensed to provide?? They can only take our money and return as little as possible in health care, driving up cost of health care.
Every other western industrialized democracy has figured this out to their benifit and instituted Universal Health Care, completely eliminating insurance middleman, or strictly regulating their role, as they would a public utility.
Let's hope this subject is thoroughly discussed.
Thank you,
Brian Stompe
bkstompe@verizon.net