[URPE] Full Employment Seminar - 10 April - Leonard Rodberg

[Matthew S Winters]

The COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare and 
Equity (#613) invites you to our next meeting on TUESDAY 10 April:

DATE: Tuesday, April 10, 2007

SPEAKER: Professor Leonard Rodberg, Queens College

TOPIC: Proposals for Universal Health Care: Evaluation of Major Proposals
  and Their Political Prospects

A number of proposals that seek to achieve "universal health care" have been 
put forward in the last few months.  In this seminar, Professor Rodberg will 
describe each of these proposals; discuss the extent to which each would, or 
would not, achieve the goal of affordable, universal health care; and assess 
the political strengths and weaknesses of each.

Leonard Rodberg began his professional life as a nuclear physicist, but he has 
strayed far afield.  Rodberg, who holds a PhD in physics from MIT, is now 
Associate Professor and Chair of the Urban Studies Department at Queens 
College, where he teaches health policy and other urban issues. In the 1970s, 
he led the development of the U.S. Health Service Act, usually referred to as 
the Dellums Bill, legislation that would create a community-based national 
health service.  In the 1980s, Professor Rodberg was one of the founders of 
Physicians for a National Health Program.  He currently serves as Research 
Director of the New York Metro Chapter of PNHP and writes and speaks widely on 
health care reform issues.

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Please RSVP to Matt Winters (msw22 at columbia.edu) by Friday 6 April.

Dinner is at 6:00 p.m. at Faculty House, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.  The street 
address is 400 West 117th Street.  DIRECTIONS: the easiest approach is through 
the gates on the north side of 116th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and 
Morningside Drive.  Enter via the gate on the east side of Broadway at 116TH 
STREET; go through campus and cross AMSTERDAM AVE. Continue on West 116th past 
the Law School and turn left through the gate, turn right beyond Wein Hall on 
the right and go down the ramp to Faculty House.  Purchase a ticket for dinner 
($22) at the ticket window on the first floor, and then the dinner buffet is in 
the DeWitt Clinton Dining Room on the fourth floor.

The seminar is at 7:15 p.m. in a room that will be announced in the
Faculty House lobby.  Please look for a bulletin board posting.

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University Seminar on Full Employment #613

____ I will ____ I will not attend the meeting on TUESDAY April 10th
____ I will ____ I will not join the group for dinner

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Helen Lachs Ginsburg, helenginsburg at yahoo.com
Trudy Goldberg, trudygoldberg at msn.com
Sheila Collins, sheila.collins3 at verizon.net
Chairs, Columbia Seminar on FULL EMPLOYMENT, SOCIAL WELFARE AND EQUITY