CSCC plans healthcare forum for May 7th

CSCC is organizing a Healthcare Forum on Thursday, May 7, 2009, at 7 p.m. at the Union County Government Center on 15th St. N. in Lewisburg.

The theme will be "Re-Imagining Healthcare and Fixing What's Fixable: The Next 5 Years." Our goal is to generate public awareness and discussion about the importance of healthcare and about our ability as citizens to address problems in the current healthcare system.

We'll have 4-5 panel speakers from different disciplines. Each will talk about their perspective on what could be improved in the current healthcare system (in PA or nationally) and what can be done in the next five years or so.

We hope to include at least one health economics professor, one state Department of Health representative, one local healthcare administrator, and one physician. We will announce the names of the speakers once the panel is set.

The format will be short presentations by each speaker, followed by time for Q&A and discussion with the audience, for a total of 90-120 minutes.

Note: a Health Care Coverage Symposium is happening at Susquehanna University on March 25-26. Here's the link if you want details.