Health Care Transparency 07
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The 2007 Conference on Health
Care Transparency and Patient
Advocacy was held on Nov. 16th, 2007 in Lexington
Kentucky. A wide range of notable experts from around the nation
presented their opinions regarding our healthcare system.
New story from the Lexington
Herald Leader - 11/17/2007
View
News Story on the Conference
Comments from Business and Labor in Support of Healthcare Transparency
The following presentations can be viewed online. The videos are unedited and the viewer should verify all statements and opinions made in the presentations. (Note, due to recording difficulties not all speakers have a video of their presentation or their video may be truncated.)
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Health Care Transparency MP4 Videos will play on mobile devices, IOS, Android and Computers |
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 Joycelyn Elders - Past US Surgeon General discusses the importance of healthcare transparency and patient advocacy. |
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 Dave Adkisson - President of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce discusses the importance of healthcare transparency to the business of Kentucky. |
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 Kevin Kavanagh - Board Chairman of Health
Watch USA discusses healthcare transparency for quality and
costs. Download Handout and Supporting Documents |
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The Nursing Shortage and Staffing Ratios |
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 Alice
Bodley - General Counsel for the American Nurses
Association discusses the Importance
of the Registered Nurse in providing safe & effective
patient care; the Federal Government and the Joint
Commission, their effectiveness as watchdogs of patient
safety coming into question. |
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 Zenei Cortex - President of the California Nurses Association and National Nurses Organizing Committee stressed that minimum Registered Nurse staffing ratios was a major factor that solved California's Nursing Shortage. |
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Once working conditions improved the
nurses came back to work. See California Statistics |
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 Pat Tanner - Past President of the Kentucky Nurses Association speaks on whether or not there is a nursing shortage in Kentucky ? |
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Health Care Reform - Single Payer System |
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 Tom Hubbell - Physicians for a National Health Program presents the case for a single payer system. WMV 32 mins 368 Kbps Download Healthcare Now Summary Sheet |
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 Mark Lambreth - President of the Kentucky Association of Health Underwriters presents the case against socialized medicine. WMV 28 mins Competition: A prescription for Health Care Transformation Heritage Foundataion |
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Health Care Reform - Government Oversight |
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 Robert Abell - Lexington attorney who discusses State protection of healthcare whistleblowers and oversight of Kentucky's healthcare system. WMV 22 mins 368 Kbps Download Handout All persons and healthcare providers in Kentucky are required to report abuse (KRS 209.030 and KRS 620.030), failure to do so is a Class B Misdemeanor (KRS 209.990) |
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