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Geri Jenkins

Geri Jenkins, Co-President of the California Nurses Association, discusses Single Payer / Medicare for All – An Economic Stimulus Plan for the Nation. Ms. Jenkins describes how a single-payer system would create 2.8 million jobs and more than $300 billion in new revenues to the U.S. econnomy. A single-payer system would provide health insurance to all Americans, including children as well as families below the poverty line.

The California Nurses Association / National Nurses Organizing Committee is the nation’s largest union of Registered Nurses. CNA was the driving force behind California’s law guaranteeing a safe ratio of nurses to patients on every unit, a law that has saved thousands of lives and helped ease the state’s nursing shortage by drawing RNs back into critical-care settings. CNA is also the nation’s leading proponent of guaranteed healthcare on the single-payer model, which proposes expanding Medicare to cover all Americans.

Technorati Tags: chronic disease, health care, HR676, Medicare, single-payer system, universal health care

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Dr. Ana Malinow

Dr. Malinow is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and full-time faculty at the Ben Taub General Hospital Pediatric Emergency and Ambulatory Center, located in Houston, TX. Dr. Malinow’s experiences with the underserved in Cleveland and Houston motivated her in 2002 to co-found Health Care for All Texas, and to promote single-payer universal health care through education and policy setting.

Dr. Malinow has been a guest speaker on health care reform in local and national lectures, and has been featured on multiple television and radio programs. She is the author of numerous Op-Ed articles and is past president of Physicians for a National Health Program. Physicians for a National Health Program has more than 15,000 members and chapters across the United States.

Technorati Tags: health care reform, pharmaceutical industry, single-payer system, universal health care

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Dr. Thomas Royer

Dr. Thomas Royer is the President and CEO of CHRISTUS Health systems. Dr. Royer leads day-to-day operations for CHRISTUS Health and lends extensive expertise in developing physician partnerships and community health programs. For three years in a row, he has been named one of the top 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives in Healthcare by Modern Physician Magazine. Dr. Royer is a board-certified surgeon. His passion for patients and over 40 years of experience have made him a sought-after speaker, writer, and expert on the health care industry.

Technorati Tags: health care reform, prevention, universal health care, wellness

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Dr. Robert Field

Dr. Robert Field is Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Public Health at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. His expertise extends into healthcare law and regulation, health system planning and development, and health policy analysis. Dr. Field recently published a book, Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation, and Compromise, which gives a comprehensive overview of the healthcare system in the United States.

He has conducted health policy research at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the Center for Law and Health Sciences at Boston University. Dr. Field is a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the adjunct faculty of the Wharton School.

Technorati Tags: health care policy, Medicare, pharmaceuticals, universal health care

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Dr. Pauline Rosenau

Dr. Pauline Rosenau is Professor of Management, Policy, and Community Health at the University of Texas–Houston School of Public Health. She is the author of The Competition Paradigm: America’s Romance with Conflict, Contest, and Commerce, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2003.

Dr. Rosenau edited Public/Private Policy Partnerships, published by MIT University Press in 2000 and Health Reform in the Nineties, published by SAGE Publications in 1994. Her books have received Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Books Awards in 1992 and 1994. Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in many prestigious journals, including Social Work in Public Health, Journal of Health Politics, and Medical Care Review.

Technorati Tags: health care reform, U.S. Health Care, universal health care

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Dr. Thomas Horan

Dr. Thomas Horan is Executive Director of the Claremont Information and Technology Institute and Associate Professor in the School of Information Systems and Technology at Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Horan works on a wide range of applied technology projects relating to transportation and health care.

Dr. Horan’s research interests include development and deployment of advanced information technologies and policies, including intelligent transportation systems and advanced telecommunications systems. Currently, one of Dr. Horan’s biggest projects is as Director of the Kay Center for E-Health Research, where he is working on policy issues involving personal health records.

Claremont Graduate University is one of two graduate-only universities in the U.S. Based in California, CGU has nine schools devoted to 22 fields and specializes in transdisciplinary research.

Technorati Tags: health information technology, personal health records, universal health care