National Affairs Forum on Healthcare

A National Healthcare Forum
Hosted by the FCDC National Affairs Committee
Cosponsored by Democratic Committees from Across Virginia
October 7, 7-9pm

The distinguished panel of experts will describe a realistic continuum of steps, a roadmap, that they each believe is the best route to move the United States from where we are now to a destination of universal health care coverage, through single-payer Medicare-for-All or other avenues.

Forum Speakers:

• Congressman Don Beyer (VA-8), H.R.1976 cosponsor;
• Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-3), H.R.1976 cosponsor;
• Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (WA-7), H.R.1976 cosponsor;
• Donald Berwick, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Lecturer in Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School;
• Robert Pollin, Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Co-Director, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts Amherst;
• Susan Rogers, President of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP);
• Judy Feder, Georgetown Professor of Public Policy; and
• Melinda St. Louis, Director of Public Citizen’s Medicare for All Campaign

Virginia Democratic Committee Forum Cosponsors: