Economist Gerald Friedman to speak on Medicare funding
The Economic Case for Medicare for All
Economics Professor Gerald Friedman, Ph.D., will speak on the funding of a single payer, improved Medicare for All health care system on October 24 at 7 p.m. at the Louisville First Unitarian Church, 809 S. 4th St.
Dr. Friedman is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Dr. Friedman was a Phi Beta Kappa member and Magna Cum Laude graduate of Columbia University. He obtained his doctorate from Harvard University, where he received a Certificate of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
He has written extensively on the funding of single payer health care systems.
In his study “Funding HR 676: The Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act — How we can afford a national single-payer health plan,” he outlines the costs and benefits of Rep. John Conyers’ national single-payer legislation.
Dr. Friedman has provided expert testimony in the US Senate on his study of the financial analysis of single payer national health insurance.
The program is sponsored by: Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care, PO Box 17595, Louisville, KY 40217, www.kyhealthcare.org, nursenpo@aol.com, 502 636 1551
While in Louisville, Dr. Friedman will speak at three other major events:
“Medicare for All — What future physicians need to know,” Oct. 23, noon, University of Louisville Medical School Instructional Bldg, Rm 102, 500 S. Preston. The program is sponsored by U of L Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP).
Grand Rounds: “Medicare for All – What physicians need to know,” October 24, 8 a.m., Ambulatory Care Building, 550 S. Preston St., sponsored by U of L Department of Medicine.
Grand Rounds: “Medicare for All – What physicians need to know,” October 25, 8:00 a.m., Bottigheimer Auditorium, Jewish Hospital, 200 Abraham Flexner Way, sponsored by U of L Department of Family Medicine and Geriatrics