There will be a Medicaid forum in Oak Ridge on Tuesday, January 17. It will feature a family physician, health care campaign director, pastor, and health care economics professor.
The forum will be presented by the League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge.
The forum will be moderated by Zack Buck, associate professor of law at the University of Tennessee who specializes in health law, bioethics, and tort law.
Other guests will include:
- Dr. William Culbert, a board-certified family physician;
- Judy Roitman, a licensed master social worker and executive director of Tennessee Health Care Campaign;
- Reverend Derrick Hammond, pastor of Oak Valley Baptist Church in Oak Ridge; and
- Matthew C. Harris, UT professor of economics and health care.
The forum is scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. January 17 in the Pollard Auditorium.
“The Tennessee legislature did not expand Medicaid in 2022,” a forum flyer said. “We hope it will do so in 2023.”
Co-sponsors include American Association of University Women in Oak Ridge and Tennessee, American Cancer Society, League of Women Voters of Tennessee, National Alliance on Mental Illness Oak Ridge, New Direction Health Care Solution, SEIU (Service Employees International Union) Local 2015 at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge, and Women’s Interfaith Dialogue.
For a Zoom link, send an email to [email protected].
More information will be added as it becomes available.
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