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.