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PNHP California is pleased to announce The Summer Conference, our first annual conference for the California single payer community. The conference is a collaborative effort of many organizations from the State Strategy Group and includes a full lunch and dinner buffet with presentations from state and national leaders in the single payer movement: Walter Tsou, Don McCanne, Margaret Flowers, Mark Leno, Sheila Kuehl, Michael Lighty, Paul Song, Andrew McGuire, Paul Hochfeld and more.
The Summer Conference has two objectives:
1. Review and respond to the recent federal health reform legislation.
2. Develop grassroots task forces of activists from across the state and across the spectrum of California single payer organizations. The task forces will focus on three key areas of activism: Education (speaking and media outreach), Advocacy (message-based and relationship-based legislative contact), and Growth (outreach to particular groups, demonstrations and rallies, regional coalition development).
Tickets are available at Event Brite for $95.50 for day and evening, or $65 for the day program and $45 for the evening program. We also have The $10 Deal for non-physicians that includes access to all the educational programs and educational materials but no meals. Please join us for one of the most important single payer events of 2010. And please forward The Summer Conference Flyer to your friends.
When: July 17, 2010
Where: UCLA Faculty Center
What: Activist training and team building for the California grassroots single payer movement.
How do I sign up: Go to Event Brite to purchase tickets .
Where do I stay? The UCLA Guest House Hotel has rooms for $143/night.
Agenda:
8:00—9:00 AM Registration
9:00—9:15 AM Welcome
Organizer, PNHP California
9:15—10:00 AM Review of the federal health reform legislation: PPACA
Walter Tsou, MD, MPH Past President, American Public Health Association
10:00-10:30 AM 2010 California Single Payer Primer
Sara Rogers, Health Policy Consultant to Senator Leno
10:30—11:00 AM Transitioning to State Single Payer: the financial and legislative challenges.
Michael Lighty, Director of Public Policy for the California Nurses Association
11:00—12:00 PM State Strategy Group Q&A 2010 Reform Bill and Single Payer
Andrew McGuire, executive dIrector, California OneCare
Lenny Potash, Labor Task Force for Universal Healthcare
Bill Honigman, MD, State coordinator, PDA California
Don McCanne, MD, PNHP Senior Health Policy Fellow
12:00—1:00 PM Buffet Lunch
1:00—2:30 PM Breakout Session I- Education
2:30—3:30 PM Breakout Session II- Advocacy
3:30—5:00 PM Breakout Session III- Growth
5:00—5:30 PM Cash Bar Reception
5:30—6:30 PM Buffet Dinner
6:30—9:00 PM Evening Session
Margaret Flowers, MD, PNHP Congressional Fellow
Reports from Day Session Task Forces
Sheila Kuehl, former California State Senator
Mark Leno, California State Senator
Breakout Sessions
Breakout sessions are categorized by activism focus
A) Education: Outreach to the public and the press
Language and Framing: Tips on Media Relations: Kathy Rallings, California Teachers Association
Speaking to Physicians: Matt Hendrickson, MD MPH
Speaking to the insured: Jeoffry Gordon, MD MPH
Outreach to media: Robert Vinetz, MD and Claudia Chauffan, MD PhD
B) Advocacy: Influencing the political debate
The Healthy Majority: Dan Hodges, HCA-CA99
Operation Single Payer: Matt Hendrickson, MD MPH
C) Growth: Building the infrastructure for local coalition activism
Regional Coalitions: Matt Hendrickson, MD MPH
Reaching out to particular populations: Claudia Chaufan, MD PhD, Paul Song, MD
Rallies: Paul Hochfeld, MD
Video Development: Don Schroeder
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