[Peace] [cchcc-l] THIS Friday: health care issue at Friday Forum!

[Karen Medina]

Health care is a huge issue... come hear Claudia Lennhoff this Friday
at the YMCA noon Forum... (see details below)

> Claudia Lennhoff, Executive Director, Champaign County Health Care
> Consumers
> Lecture: The Future of the Universal Health Care Debate
>
> University YMCA, Latzer Hall
> November 2, 2012 at 12 noon
>
> Claudia Lennhoff will discuss the future for health care reform and
> universal health care, both at the national and the state level, given the
> outcome of the elections. Grassroots organizing will play a very important
> role in shaping health care policy and bringing real solutions to our
> failing health care system.
>
> Claudia Lennhoff is executive director of the Champaign County Health Care
> Consumers (CCHCC), a grassroots public health group and powerful and
> effective voice for Champaign County's most needy residents. In 2002, she
> was selected as one of 10 Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leadership
> Program awards for her work in reinstating a popular Medicare program that
> eliminated out-of-pocket medical costs for low-income seniors and disabled
> citizens. CCHCC also worked to force the University of Illinois to provide
> contraceptive coverage for its employees.  She also helped spearhead
> efforts to create the county's first comprehensive public health service.
> One nominator called Lennhoff "the moral compass of our community's health
> care system."
>
> This lecture is part of the University YMCA's fall series, Beyond the
> Rhetoric: Key Issues in the 2012 Elections.  This semester's free, public
> lectures will feature expert views on vital policy questions and shed light
> on local, state, and national races as they unfold.  Lectures take place
> September 14 - November 2, every Friday at 12 noon.  All lectures are free
> and open to the public.  Lunch available ($6.25/3.00 student).
>
> Sponsored by the University YMCA, American Association of University
> Women, Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation, Channing-Murray Foundation,
> Chapel of St. John the Divine/Episcopal Church and Foundation,  First
> Mennonite Church, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Center,
> McKinley Presbyterian Church and Foundation, and Wesley Church and
> Foundation.  Paid for by SORF.
>
> For more information on each lecture, visit:
> universityymca.org/friday_forum/