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Questions for the forum may be submitted online at https://app1.unmc.edu/forms/healthcarereform/question.cfm.
The forum — which is for employees of UNMC, The Nebraska Medical Center and UNMC Physicians — starts at noon in the Durham Research Center Auditorium. It will explain the latest in health care reform and how it may affect employees, both as health care providers and consumers.
Panelists also will take live audience questions. Water, lemonade and cookies will be provided at the forum. Those attending are welcome to bring their own lunch.
UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., will provide the welcome at the forum, and Mark Bowen, director of UNMC Government Relations, will give an overview of the status of proposed legislation in Congress.
An ensuing panel discussion will feature:
- Keith Mueller, Ph.D., interim dean of the College of Public Health;
- Glenn Fosdick, president and CEO of The Nebraska Medical Center; and
- Rodney Markin, M.D., Ph.D., president of UNMC Physicians.
The forum is part of the effort of UNMC, UNMC Physicians and The Nebraska Medical Center to be an objective resource for elected officials, business and community entities in communicating the potential impact of health care reform proposals.
As part of its efforts, the med center formed a health care review group to study the issues that will affect the medical center and its employees. The group includes 19 people from the medical center as well as the local business community.
Some of the issues of health care reform include:
- Universal health care coverage;
- A potential public insurance plan;
- Payments and reimbursement costs; and
- Health care workforce and training.