Health Care Reform Debate Taken Apart by University of Arkansas Expert
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A University of Arkansas public health care expert will give a presentation on health care reform at noon Wednesday, Oct. 7, in the E.J. Ball Courtroom at the School of Law. The presentation, “Health Care Reform: Predicaments, Politics, and Prognosis,” is free and open to the public.
Robert B Leflar, the Arkansas Bar Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas and professor of public health and humanities at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, will lay out the fundamental issues confronting American health care. His talk also will spotlight the political controversies surrounding the health care reform debate nationally and in Arkansas, reveal what the chief proposals before Congress would and would not accomplish, and offer ideas on what needs to be done to rescue the health care system. There will be a question-and-answer session following the presentation.
Leflar has published and lectured widely on public health care. His article “‘Unnatural Deaths,’ Criminal Sanctions, and Medical Quality in Japan,” was the lead article in the winter 2009 issue of the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics. Among his many recent lectures on health care is "Reform of the American Health Care System," delivered this summer at the annual meeting of the Arkansas Bar Association.Topics
Contacts
Robert B. Leflar, Arkansas Bar Foundation Professor of Law
School of Law
479-575-2709,
rbleflar@uark.edu
Andy Albertson, director of communications
School of Law
479-575-6111,
aalbert@uark.edu
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