Harrisburg Community Forum
Health care, business, government and consumer representatives gathered on August 27, 2008 in Harrisburg, PA, for the third AHA-cosponsored discussion of comprehensive health care reform.
Co-hosted by the Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) and Pennsylvania Cable Network, the event focused on ways to make health care more accessible and less expensive. HAP President and CEO Carolyn Scanlan called reform “complex” and “multidimensional,” saying all stakeholders share a social mission and will need to make sacrifices.
“We don’t want anyone to be left with the impression that we view only hospitals as the place you get care,” said Scanlan, an AHA trustee. “The underlying issue is how we put all the pieces of the system together.” The forum was broadcast live to some 3.3 million cable subscribers across the state.
Forum panelists
Garry Scheib, chief operating officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and AHA Board of Trustees
Glenn Steele Jr., M.D., president and CEO of Geisinger Health System and AHA Board of Trustees
Larry Clark, legislative director for Gov. Edward Rendell’s Office of Health Care Reform
Gene Barr, Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry
Ray Landis, AARP Pennsylvania
Peter Lund, Pennsylvania Medical Society
Kati Sipp, SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania
Kevin Shivers, National Federation of Independent Businesses-Pennsylvania
Read more
AHA News Now, "PA reform efforts shape discussion at Health for Life community forum," September 2, 2008
The Patriot-News, "Seeking solutions," August 28, 2008, David Wenner
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