Health Care Reform Panel Discussion at Wesleyan

From a CT Green Party Press Release:

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The Connecticut Green Party will hold a panel discussion at Wesleyan Wednesday, explaining the weaknesses of the legislation that recently passed the House in the form of bill HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care For America Act. The panel is composed of Dr. John Battista, a nationally noted expert from Litchfield County who has written about reform for over a decade, Jerry Martin of the New Haven Green Party, Scott Deshefy, Green Party candidate for Congress from Norwich, and Dr. Peter de la Rosa of New London, an advocate for Prevention through Health Education. The discussion is interactive, and examined the compromises, rhetoric, and betrayals by our elected representatives. The debate now moves to the Senate where the battle has just begun.

Weds., Dec. 2, 7PM

Woodhead Lounge in Exley Science Center

265 Church Street

For more information about this event, contact Joan Bowman at 203-843-7457

Reminder: Healthcare Forum with John Conyers Thursday

From Emily Langner

Open Health Care Reform Town Hall with Rep. John Conyers (D-MI)
May 28th at Wesleyan University’s Exley Science Center (6:30 PM), Middletown, CT


The public is welcome to attend a town hall-style health care open forum on Thursday, May 28th, at 6:30 PM, at Wesleyan University’s Exley Science Center.

Speaking on the panel are Representative John Conyers, author of HR 676, the US National Health Insurance Act, as well as Katie Robbins, Assistant National Coordinator for Healthcare NOW!, and Donna Smith, lobbyist for the California Nurses’ Association (CNA), and featured in the health care blockbuster SiCKO, as well as Connecticut’s local and national legislators, and local physicians.

Over 40 years ago, at the Riverside Church in New York, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said, "Of all the forms of injustice, inequality in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."

What can you do about it? Mark your calendar now for May 28th, 6:30 PM at Wesleyan University’s Exley Science Center. For more information, contact Deb Hall at (860) 302-5352, email dvhall@wesleyan.edu or Emily Langner at (518) 928-1318, email elangner@wesleyan.edu.