HEALTH CARE: WHERE ARE WE HEADED?

A Forum Presented by

The Winchester Council on Aging

Jenks Senior Center

109 Skillings Road

Winchester, MA 01890

We recognize that the national health care system is in crisis.  The signs?  HMO's limiting health care, medical practices and hospitals closing down, doctors refusing to see Medicare and Medicaid-covered patients, skyrocketing costs for both services and medications.   Nationally, some 40 million citizens are without health care insurance.  Many citizens seem confused and uninformed about the myriad of programs offered and unclear about what is covered and what is not.

 

The goal of the Health Care Forum is to provide a platform, which will help Winchester residents and those from adjoining communities to understand and conceptualize health care issues as they affect the cost of, and access to, medical care, home care and long-term care.   The Winchester COA believes that an informed public can become the best advocates for influencing constructive changes in the health care delivery system through consumer groups and elected representatives.

 

FORUM PROGRAM

( As of December 30, 2002 )

Saturday, January 25, 2003 - Is Medical Care A Right?

Keynote Speaker:  Arnold S. Relman, M.D.,  Faculty, Harvard Medical School

Editor-in Chief Emeritus, New England Journal of Medicine,

Panelists: Dale Lodge, President and CEO,  Winchester Hospital

Harris A. Berman, M.D., CEO,  Tufts Health Plan

 

Saturday, February 8, 2003 - Single Payer System: Affordable Health Care for All?

Keynote Speaker: David U. Himmelstein, M.D., Faculty, Harvard Medical School

Director, Physicians for a National Health Plan

Panelists: Mitchell T. Rabkin, M.D., CEO Emeritus, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Charles Welch, M.D., President, Mass Medical Society (invited)

 

Saturday, March 15, 2003 - Long Term Care in Massachusetts:

Problems, Causes, and Solutions

Keynote Speaker: Alan Sager, Ph.D., Faculty, Boston University School of Public Health

Panelists: Mary Ann Outwater, RN, Director, Assisted Living Development

Covenant Health Systems

Al Norman, Executive Director, Mass Home Care

Saturday, May 3, 2003 - Financing Health Care & Eliminating Fraud

Keynote Speaker - Financing: Health Care - Michael S. Dukakis, J.D., Faculty, Northeastern University

Former Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Keynote Speaker - Fraud: Malcolm K. Sparrow, Ph.D., Faculty, Kennedy School of Government

Author:  License to Steal: How Fraud Bleeds America's Health Care System

Saturday, May 31, 2003 - Prescription Drugs: Why So Costly?

Keynote Speaker: Marcia Angell, M.D., Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School

Former Editor-in Chief, New England Journal of Medicine

Panelists: Frederick J. Vinick, Ph.D., Senior V.P. Drug Discovery, Genzyme Corporation

Nicole DeVita, R.Ph., MHP, Director of Pharmacy, Partners Community HealthCare

Saturday, June 21, 2003 - Health Care: Where Are We Headed?

A Town Forum

Town of Winchester Moderator: John J. Sullivan, J.D.

Alan Macdonald, J.D., Executive Director, Massachusetts Business Roundtable

State Senator Susan Fargo, MPA, Fifth Middlesex,  Member, The Joint Committee on Health Care

 

Programs begin at 9:00 a.m. and conclude at 12:00 Noon

These programs are free-of-charge, pre-registration is recommended, as seating is limited

Call 781-721-7136