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April 11, 2008

HEALTH INSURANCE FOR AMERICANS: TWO PROPOSALS FROM PHYSICIANS

The Florida State University College of Medicine presents physicians from the American Medical Association and Harvard Medical School discussing what prominent physician groups have to say about universal health care.

Dr. Jeremy Lazarus, the American Medical Association’s chief spokesman on issues involving the uninsured, is a Denver psychiatrist in private practice elected speaker of the AMA House of Delegates in 2007. He will be joined by Dr. Steffi Woolhandler, a Harvard Medical School internist who co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program. Woolhandler has published more than 100 studies of health insurance and frequently testifies before Congress on health insurance issues.

The presentation will be held:

MONDAY, APRIL 14
7-9 P.M.
AUDITORIUM
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

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