Programs address health and your vote
The March 18 News & Record reported that both Democratic presidential candidates are coming to North Carolina before the May 6 primary. The Republican nominee will probably come before the general election. All likely will talk about health care reform.
For everyone wanting to prepare questions, let me suggest "Your Health, Your Money, Your Vote," a series of programs sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Piedmont Triad and the Moses Cone-Wesley Long Community Foundation.
At the March 11 session, Dr. Jonathan Oberlander, health policy expert and professor at UNC-CH, introduced these key voter issues:
* Health reform is viewed by experts as necessary.
* Reform will be difficult because of deeply ingrained failings in our current system.
* Meaningful change depends on those who are insured understanding the widespread economic costs of the underinsured and uninsured.
The community has three additional opportunities to become informed:
* March 25 -- Addiction, Mental Health and Mental Reform.
* April 22 -- Your Health Care: Who's the Decider?
* May 13 -- Determinants of Health: Is it ME or is it WE?
All sessions are 7:30-9:30 p.m., free and held at Wesley Long Community Health Education Center, 501 N. Elam Ave.
Willie Taylor
Greensboro
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