[Peace] March 22 Town Hall Meeting on Health Care: "What is Your Health Worth? A National Conversation on Health Care"

[Ricky Baldwin]

> ** PLEASE FORWARD**

>  
> 
> Dear Friends,

> Champaign County Health Care Consumers invites you
> to attend this important
> Town Hall meeting on Health Care on Wednesday at
> 5:30 p.m. on the U of I
> campus at the National Center for Supercomputing
> Applications (see details
> below).
> 
>  
> 
> This meeting is part of a national series of
> meetings for the public to have
> dialogue on our nation's health care.  The meeting
> will be interactive and
> will feature a local panel, including Claudia
> Lennhoff, CCHCC Executive
> Director.  The meeting is intended to get your input
> on the following
> questions:
> 
>  
> 
> - What health care benefits and services should be
> provided?
> 
> - How does the American public want health care
> delivered?
> 
> - How should health care coverage be financed?
> 
> - What tradeoffs are the American public willing to
> make in either benefits
> or financing to ensure access to affordable, high
> quality health care
> coverage and services?
> 
>  
> 
> CCHCC believes that health care is a basic human
> right and that all people
> should have access to quality affordable health
> care, including physical,
> oral, and mental health, as well as affordable
> access to prescription drugs
> and durable medical equipment.
> 
>  
> 
> Please join us for this important meeting!
> 
>  
> 
> If you have any questions, please feel free to
> contact Claudia Lennhoff at
> 217/352-6533 or claudia at shout.net.
> 
>  
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Claudia Lennhoff
> 
> CCHCC Executive Director
> 
>  
> 
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> "What is Your Health Worth?  A National Conversation
> on Health Care"
> 
>  
> 
> Wednesday, March 22, 2006
> 
> 5:30pm-8:30pm CST, Live Webcast from 6-8 pm
> 
>  
> 
> On Wednesday, March 22, UIUC will be hosting a live
> local Webcast on health
> care reform.  This special program is produced by
> The Citizens' Health Care
> Working Group* and is being broadcast from the
> University of Michigan with
> co-sponsorship by the Big Ten Conference and The
> Association of Schools of
> Public Health.  Funded by Congress, recommendations
> generated through a
> series of town hall meetings will be considered by
> Congress and the White
> House in health care reform decisions. 
> 
>  
> 
> The primary goal of the Working Group is to engage
> the public in an informed
> dialogue on the health care system in America. UIUC
> is one of 22 partner
> institutions that will be hosting local audiences
> and joining the Webcast
> via satellite.  We are especially interested in
> having members of the
> Champaign-Urbana community attend and offer their
> thoughts and opinions
> about the current state of the health care system. 
> A panel of Faculty,
> Students and Community Members will lead discussions
> before and after the
> live Webcast.
> 
>  
> 
> Location:
> 
>  
> 
> National Center for Supercomputing Applications
> 
> On the U of I Campus
> 
> 1205 W. Clark St.
> 
> Auditorium - rm. 1122
> 
> Urbana, IL 61801
> 
> Parking is available in the garage at the corner of
> University & Goodwin
> Aves in Urbana.
> 
>  
> 
> This event is open to the public. Please plan to
> attend this unique
> opportunity to participate in the national dialogue
> on health care reform.
> 
>  
> 
> * The Citizens' Health Care Working Group, a
> nonpartisan group authorized by
> the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and
> Modernization Act of 2003,
> is charged with listening to the views of the
> American people and developing
> recommendations for the President and Congress to
> provide U.S. citizens with
> "Health Care that Works for All Americans." The
> Health Report to the
> American People was released in October 2005
>
(http://www.citizenshealthcare.gov/healthreport/healthreport.php)
> and serves
> as a basis to engage the American people in a
> dialogue on health care
> access, cost and quality issues.  The Working Group
> consists of 15 members
> --14 citizens of diverse backgrounds from across the
> country, and the
> Secretary of Health and Human Services. 
> 
>            
> 
> For more information, please contact Chris Erb
> (cerb at uiuc.edu) or Cindy
> Elkins (deye at uiuc.edu) at 244-0222, or visit the
> following Websites:
> 
> http://www.citizenshealthcare.gov/ and
> www.umich.edu/healthmeeting
> 
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