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Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform: How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT!
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome physician, former Vermont governor, and recent chairman of the Democratic National Committee HOWARD DEAN, for a discussion of his new book Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform. In his new book, Howard Dean—the physician and former governor widely credited for reviving the Democratic Party after the 2004 elections—tells Americans what needs to be done to successfully reform healthcare. One key, he writes, is to offer Americans the option to participate in a public healthcare program, much like Medicare. “America has had ‘socialized’ medicine since 1964,” says Dean. “It’s called Medicare; it covers every American over sixty-five, and the majority of them are happy with the program. The rest of America deserves a similar option.” "As both a Democratic Party standard bearer and a former practicing physician, Gov. Dean (You Have the Power) has placed himself at the forefront of grass-roots organizing for healthcare reform. In a searing indictment of private insurers who put profits ahead of care, Dean advocates a public-health insurance option, posing the question: 'Is private health insurance really health insurance? Or is it simply an extension of the things that have been happening on Wall Street?' Charts illustrate the disadvantages faced by U.S. industry against competitors in other countries, and dovetail with his plan for 'healthcare reform, not just insurance reform,' including more preventative medicine, home-care for seniors, standards set by medical professionals rather than insurers; ultimately, he concludes, the result would be lower costs and better medicine.... This lively, detailed read should help shape the debate on one of the year's most pressing issues." —Publishers Weekly
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Howard Dean—physician and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC)—served six terms as Governor of Vermont before running for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in the nation’s 2004 election. Dean also founded Democracy for America (DFA), the grassroots organization that organizes activists in local communities, trains campaign staff, and endorses progressive candidates. Recently, Dean launched a DFA healthcare reform campaign—pushing legislators to give Americans a public healthcare option. While he was Vermont’s governor, the state expanded its universal healthcare program for children and pregnant women—and also lowered its public debt, balanced its budget eleven times, and reduced income taxes.
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