Annual Meeting & Leadership Training
San Diego, October 24-25, 2008
PNHP’s Annual Meeting this year will be in San Diego on Saturday, October 25. We’ll host a Leadership Training for a limited number of participants in advance of the meeting, starting at noon on Friday, October 24. Speakers include:
- Drs. David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler (on policy and politics)
- Rose Ann DeMoro (on labor support for single payer)
- Tsung-Mei Cheng (on Taiwan’s single payer system)
- Dr. Kevin Grumbach (on the primary care workforce and single payer)
- PNHP President-elect Dr. Oliver Fein (on PNHP strategy in the post-election period and local chapter building)
- Dr. Jim Kahn (on private insurance overhead and financing)
- Dr. Andrew Coates (on organizing state single payer coalitions)
- Parker Duncan (medical student lobbying for single payer) and many more.
Please join PNHP leaders at one or both events. Hotel rooms are limited ($225 single/double); reserve directly by calling the Westin Gaslamp Quarter at 866-716-8132 before September 26. For a list of alternate hotels, please click here.
Online registration is closed at this time. Registration will be available at the door starting at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 25.
PNHP Annual Meeting 2008
Single Payer Advocacy and the 2008 Elections: Opportunities and Obstacles for Health Care Reform
Saturday, October 25 — San Deigo, CA
Westin Gaslamp Quarter (619) 239-2200
AGENDA (Tentative)
General Session — The Pavillion (4th floor)
8:00 a.m.
Registration opens — coffee and bagels
9:00 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions - Dr. Ana Malinow, PNHP President, Dr. Jim Kahn, CaPA Chair
9:30 a.m.
US Health Policy and the Elections, 2008
- Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, PNHP co-founder, Harvard Medical School
State Health Reform “Flatlines:” A Report from Massachusetts
- Dr. David Himmelstein, PNHP co-founder Harvard Medical School
11:00 a.m. — Break
11:15 a.m.
Single Payer and the National Crisis in Primary Care
- Dr. Kevin Grumbach, Chair of Family Medicine, UCSF
Co-Founder, California Physicians’ Alliance (CaPA)
11:45 a.m.
Labor Support for Single Payer, HR 676
- Kay Tillow, All Unions Committee for Single Payer
12:00 p.m. — Luncheon
Physician Opinion on National Health Insurance
- Dr. Aaron Carroll, PNHP Board of Directors
Lessons from Taiwan’s Single Payer Program on Implementing Universal Coverage and Controlling Rising Health Care Costs — at the same time!
- Dr. Tsung Mei Cheng, Princeton
- Q and A
2:00 — 3:00 Workshops
California Physicians’ Alliance Meeting (Chaired by CaPA President Dr. Jim Kahn)
Pavillion (4th floor)
Taiwan’s single payer system (Dr. Tsung-Mei Cheng)
Coronado (3rd floor)
Myths and Realities about Big Pharma (Dr. Gordon Schiff)
Sierra (2nd floor)
Lobbying/organizing for single payer - HR 676 (Dr Robert Zarr, Dr. Andy Coates)
Presidio (2nd floor)
Medical student workshop (Gabe Silverman, MS III, Kirsten Austad, MS I)
Library (1st floor)
3:00 — 4:00 Workshops (tentative)
Update on health care in Canada (Drs. Joel and Catherine Lexchin, CDM)
Coronado (3rd floor)
Strategies for building local PNHP chapters (Dr. Oliver Fein)
Sierra (2nd floor)
Shareholder resolutions & the business case for reform (Dr. Walter Tsou, Dr Rob Stone)
Presidio (2nd floor)
Medical student workshop (Continued)
Library (1st floor)
4:00 p.m.
Building the Movement for Single Payer after the Elections — Panel moderated by Dr. Quentin Young
Pavillion (4th floor)
- Hal Sanders, Presbyterian General Assembly (on building support among faith groups)
- Michael Lighty, California Nurses Association (on national coalition building)
- Mary Carol Jennings, Fellow, AMSA (on medical student support for single payer)
- Report back from the medical student workshop, TBA
- Drs Jim Kahn and Oliver Fein (on building PNHP chapters and physician support)
- Dr. Steffie Woolhandler (on PNHP strategy in the coming period)
5:00 p.m.
Activist Networking/Reception sponsored by PNHP’s California chapter, the California Physicians’ Alliance (CaPA).
Balboa Terrace (3rd floor)
7:00 p.m. — Dinner
Pavillion (4th floor)
“Unhealthy crimes: Fraud and abuse by California health insurers”
Rocky Delgadillo, LA City Attorney
“Starting from Scratch: Bringing the single payer movement to Washington, DC“
Michael Lighty, California Nurses Association
Presentation of the Dr. Quentin Young Health Activist Awards
The “Activist Physicians’ Dinner at APHA“
(sponsored by 12 groups) will be held on Sunday night, 6:00 p.m. Dussini Mediterranean Bistro, 275 Fifth Avenue (6-9 p.m.)
$45 in advance/$50 at the door
RSVP to Dr. Peter Orris, Activist Physician Dinner, UIC Medical Center, 835 S. Wolcott (MC684) Chicago IL 60612, 312-864-5550.
For more information, please click here.
Alternate Hotels
Days Inn Downtown/Convention Center - Est. $174
833 Ash St., 92101
619-239-2285 (Website)
Bristol Hotel - Est. $194
1055 First Ave., 92101
800-662-4477 (Website)
Westin San Diego - Est. $209
400 W. Broadway, 92101
619-239-4500 (Website)
The Horton Grand Hotel - Est. $215
311 Island Ave., 92101
800-542-1886 (Website)
Gaslamp Plaza Suites - Est. $219
520 E St., 92101
619-232-9500 (Website)
W San Diego - Est. $299
421 W. B St., 92101
619-398-3100 (Website)
Sheraton San Diego Mission Valley - Est. $139
1433 Camino Del Rio S., 92108
619-260-0111 (Website)
Hilton San Diego Mission Valley - Est. $153
901 Camino Del Rio S., 92108
619-543-9000 (Website)