Health Care Reform: How Real and at What Cost?

While Congress moves closer to a pivotal vote on health care reform, there is still confusion and tension around what reform will actually mean. What will it cost? Will coverage be universal? Will there be a negative effect on current programs like Medicare? Will there be a public option? Are we merely tweaking a bad system? How do we go forward when there isn’t even a consensus about the most basic question of all: Is health care a fundamental right? Health Care Reform: How Real and at What Cost? will focus on the many questions that surround this complex issue -- with U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner of New York’s 9th District; Sinsi Hernández-Cancio of SEIU’s Healthcare Equality Project Dr. Laura Boylan of Physicians for a National Health Program; and Cheryl Matheis of AARP. Admission is free, donations welcome. No reservations – arrive early.

The program is co-sponsored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture and 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East.