NEW ROCHELLE, NY — A documentary film and an expert panel discussion on the crisis in health care delivery and ways to fix it will be shown in a public forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Westchester on Sunday, April 3, 2016, 1:30 pm at the White Plains Public Library, 100 Martine Avenue in White Plains.
After the 38-minute film, entitled “FIX IT: Healthcare at the Tipping Point,” a panel discussion will be led by New York State Assemblywoman Amy Paulin and Dr. Elizabeth Rosenthal from Physicians for a National Health Program. The State Assembly has passed a bill for a single payer health care in New York, and advocates are now focusing on State Senate passage.
“Medicare-for-all, single-payer health care, is now receiving unprecedented national attention at last! Come and learn what is possible for New Yorkers,” said Madeline Zevon, Health Care Chair of the League of Women Voters of Westchester and New York State .
The film looks at health care from a businessman’s perspective and shows how the inefficiencies of the present system is damaging our economy, suffocating our businesses, discouraging physicians, and negatively impacting the nation’s health, while remaining unaffordable for a third of the population.
The program had originally been scheduled in February, but cancelled because of the winter storm.
For further information, call 914-761-4382.
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