[act-ma] 10/4 GORDON SCHIFF - "The Road to Real Health Care Reformation"

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THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...

Sunday, October 4th, 2009
11:00am

GORDON SCHIFF, MD
"The Road to Real Health Care Reformation"

Dr. Schiff will discuss the current status and prospects for U.S. health
care reform. He will present his perspectives on why a non-for profit public
national health insurance plan (aka Medicare for all or single payer) is the
best approach for access, cost, and quality and ways current congressional
approaches detour from the road to real reform.  His emphasis will be on the
quality-enhancing role of a universal public plan. He will update the
congregation on ways they can help advocate for needed reform of the health
system.

Gordon Schiff MD  is a practicing internist and Associate Director, Center
for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Brigham and Women's Hospital and
Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  He worked at
Chicago's Cook County public hospital for three decades where he was medical
director of County's General Medicine Clinic and Professor of Medicine at
Rush Medical College. He and his wife moved to Boston last year to work on
patient safety.


Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston St. (Copley Square)
www.communitychurchofboston.org


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11:00am Sunday Speakers' Service/Forum (2nd floor)
12:30pm Luncheon


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NEXT WEEK'S COMMUNITY CHURCH FORUM (10/11)

Indigenous Peoples' Day
(invited: members of Mashpee Wampanoag tribe)

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LUNCH ON SUNDAYS, 12:30PM

On Sunday after our morning programs, we have lunch with one another in the
Guatemala Room (3rd floor), prepared by our cook Luis Alonso Guzman. Enjoy a
delicious lunch with friends! A small contribution is requested to help
cover lunch expenses.


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DIRECTIONS/PARKING

The Community Church is located at 565 Boylston Street in Copley Square,
between Dartmouth and Clarendon Streets.

Parking is available on Sunday mornings at the Back Bay Garage (entrances on
Clarendon Street or St. James Ave.). We can provide a sticker to affix to
your parking receipt, and you will be charged $5.00 for 3 hours of parking.

By public transportation, take the Green line to Copley or take the Orange
line to Back Bay station. Community Church is a 2-minute walk from either
station.


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The Community Church of Boston is a free community of human beings united
for the study and practice of universal religion, seeking to apply ethical
ideals to individual life and the democratic and cooperative principle to
all forms of social and economic life.


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FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT US

Jason Lydon, Congregational Director
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
(617)266-6710
(617)266-0449 (fax)
info at commchurch.org
http://www.communitychurchofboston.org