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Health Care Reform Briefing in Seattle
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Leave a Comment Just came across this meeting on the federal healthcare legislation coming up in Seattle. Come and let you voice be heard – it’s not over yet.
Please join the Healthy Washington Coalition for a meeting
on Federal Health Care Reform and its likely impact on
Washington State featuring:
- Congressman Jim McDermott
- State Senator Karen Keiser: Chair of the Senate Health & Human Services Committee
- State Representative Eileen Cody: Chair House Health Care & Wellness Committee
This event will be an opportunity to catch up on the latest in the
Federal Health Care Reform negotiations from those closest to the
debate.Sunday, January 17 2:00—4:00 pm
5030 1st Ave S
Seattle, WA
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union OfficesFor more information, contact:
Rachel Berkson: rberkson@seiuwa.org
Money Driven Medicine screening in Seattle
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For all my readers here in the Seattle area, I hope to see you at the upcoming screening of Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much. The movie is an adaptation of the book by Maggie Mahar which was released in 2006. It uncovers many of the issues related to the perverse incentives that are endemic to the way we provision health care in the US. In short:
Money-Driven Medicine provides the essential introduction Americans need to become knowledgeable participants in healthcare reform, now and in the years ahead. Produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side; Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and based on Maggie Mahar’s acclaimed book, Money Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much, the film offers a behind-the-scenes look at how our 2.6 trillion dollar a year healthcare system went so terribly wrong and what it will take to fix it.
The U.S. spends twice as much per person on healthcare as the average developed nation, fully one-sixth of our GDP – yet our outcomes, especially for chronic diseases, are very often worse. What makes us different? The U.S. is the only industrialized nation that has chosen to turn medicine into a largely unregulated, for-profit business.
If you truly want to dig more deeply to understand the issues we face, I highly recommend the book (Overtreated by Shannon Brownlee is another extremely well done book on the topic of healthcare costs).
The film is being screened by the Northwest Film Forum on Sunday (11/22). As far as I’m aware, the movie is not being shown anywhere else in Seattle in the near term. Don’t miss this opportunity to become better informed
SULYP Development Summit
As noted in a previous post, I had the opportunity to speak at the Fourth Annual Seattle Urban League Young Professional’s Professional Development Summit. It was great fun and I believe everyone learned something – even all the panelists.
I took part in the panel Taking Charge of Your Health in Times of Change which in addition to me included:
Moderator: Sarah Bernstein, Organizational Development Consultant, Microsoft
Tiffany Edwards, Gestalt Therapist
Dr. Michael Greer, Holistic, Herbal, Homeopathic & Naturopathic Solutions for Health
Stacey White, COACH Consulting Services
Thanks especially goes out to Sara Bernstein, who is in leadership at SULYP and was the creative engine behind the event (in the fetching green skirt). Here are a few pictures:
Seattle: Health Summit – I get to speak
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Leave a Comment For those of you in the Seattle area, I’ve been honored to be asked to speak at
an upcoming “Young Professional Development Summit” held by the Seattle Urban League Young Professionals group. I’ll be speaking on my usual spiel, but will also be joined by two others who have great experience knowledge and insight.
Here are the particulars:
Date: Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Panel Time: 9:15 – 10:45AM (includes time for Q & A)
Location: Starbucks Corp Headquarters
2401 Utah Ave S
Seattle, WA 98134
Panel Topic: “Taking Charge of your health in times of change.”
Men’s Health meeting recap
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Leave a Comment Well, my first in-person meetup took place today. It was a small and lively group. We covered a wide range of topics that I’d like to touch on in this post. We also had a great suggestion as to how to focus our next few meetings.
As mentioned, we covered pretty wide range of topics, We talked at some length about the simple, straightforward dietary advice. It’s been said before, but my #1 recommended book is Dr. Thompson’s Glycemic Load diet book. It gets you 80% there if you’re currently on a typical North American diet and its advice is very widely applicable.
We also talked a bit about the cycle of glucose and insulin response. For a very brief video description of that process, please reference a YouTube video on Diabetes. There is a more engaging one on UnderGroundWellness.com that I was not able to find … I’ll update when I do.
Also, note that we’re all set for our next get together on Sunday March 8th at the Starbucks in Madison Park.
Hope to see you there!
