Health care topic of forum tomorrow afternoon

  • <br>Enterprise staff
  • Monday, March 3, 2008 6:46am

State Rep. Hans Dunshee, D-Snohomish, is among six people on a panel that will talk about the state of health care in the United States at a forum in Mill Creek.

The program, presented by Friends of the Mill Creek Library, is scheduled from 1-3 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday, Jan. 29, at Mill Creek City Hall, 15728 Main St.

In addition to Dunshee, the panel includes speakers representing various viewpoints from the health-care industry, academia, Medicare and Medicaid, providers and small business.

The panelists include Darryl Price, vice president of marketing for Premera Blue Cross, Rod Haynes of Medicare and Medicaid; Ruth Knagenhjelm, Board of Directors, Health Care For All-Washington and a physical therapist who has practiced both in Norway and the United States; Aaron Katz, a senior lecturer in the University of Washington’s Department of Health Services; and Joanne Gregory, finance director for the city of Mill Creek. Gregory will present the small business perspective.

Ross Reynolds, host of KUOW radio’s “The Conversation,” which airs weekdays from 1-2 p.m., will be the forum moderator.

The forum will begin with each speaker having 10 minutes to present his or her perspective on the health care situation in the United States, with the remainder of the event being a question-and-answer session. Audience members will be allowed to ask questions of the panel, and Reynolds also will be able to ask questions of panelists.

Attendees are encouraged to arrive early in order to obtain seating. The last time such a program took place in Mill Creek, approximately 125 people jammed into City Hall for a forum on the federal Patriot Act.

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