Single Payer Health Care: Aspirations and Realities
- Starts:
- 4:00 pm on Monday, October 28, 2019
- Ends:
- 6:00 pm on Monday, October 28, 2019
- URL:
- https://www.bu.edu/sph/news-events/signature-programs/deans-seminars/deans-seminar-series-on-contemporary-issues-in-public-health/single-payer-health-care-aspirations-and-realities/
- Register:
- https://www.bu.edu/sph/news-events/signature-programs/deans-seminars/deans-seminar-series-on-contemporary-issues-in-public-health/single-payer-health-care-aspirations-and-realities/
- Address:
- Med Campus: L Building, 72 East Concord Street (SOM)
- Room:
- Hiebert Lounge
- Contact Organization:
- School of Public Health
- Contact Name:
- SPH Events
- Fees:
- free
- Speakers:
- Claudia Fegan, Medical Director of Cook County Health System, National Coordinator of PNHP; Robert Moffit, Senior Fellow, Health Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation; Maryanne Bombaugh, President, Massachusetts Medical Society, and other guests.
- Audience:
- public
As we head into a federal electoral season, there are few issues that have more engaged our national conversation around health than the potential of single-payer approaches to solve the perennial challenge of optimizing health system function in the country. And yet, the national conversation is often unclear about the political, economic, and practical opportunities and challenges that a single-payer approach entails.