Past Events

 

Small Business and Health Care

August 17 – Columbus, Ohio - The Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN) of Ohio and the Coalition for Affordable Health Care in Ohio (CAHO) will highlight the effects of health care costs on small businesses and their employees at a public event. Ohio small business owners will call for federal and state policymakers to focus on health reforms that will control costs and provide affordable coverage.

Time: 10 AM

Location: Katzinger's Delicatessen

475 S. 3rd Street, Columbus, OH

 

A National Day of Health Care Action

August 22, 2006 - Americans for Health Care, a project of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is organizing Chalk it Up, a National Day of Health Care Action Using chalk as a creative unifying theme, Americans for Health Care is hosting rallies, house parties, and public events across the nation. To find a local event, or create your own, go to: www.ImAHealthCareVoter.org

 

Candidates Forum on Health Care

August 22nd – Manchester, New Hampshire – The Center for American Progress Action Fund is hosting a candidate forum on health care reform for United States House of Representative candidates in the New Hampshire 1st Congressional District.

Check New Hampshire for Health Care for updated information.

 

If It’s Broke, Fix It: Health Care Providers and Health Reform

August 31st – Cleveland, Ohio – If It’s Broke, Fix It: Health Care Providers and Health Reform. This Center for American Progress Action Fund event will explore the challenges the current health care system poses for health professionals, patients, and policymakers, and how doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals can use their unique insight and real-life experiences to steer the nation towards a solution. Featured Speaker: Senator Tom Daschle, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress.

Location: HealthSpace Cleveland

8911 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106

Reframing the Health Care Debate
A Progressive Health Care Narrative

Please join the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the Progressive Legislative Action Network (PLAN), and Working for Equality and Economic Liberation (WEEL) for a special presentation.

Featured Speakers:
John Halpin, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Karen Davenport, Director of Health Policy, Center for American Progress

Moderated by:
Peter Van Vranken, Health Program Consultant, Center for American Progress

Skyrocketing health costs and stagnant incomes threaten American families, even as war, record deficits, and natural disasters are weakening our economy as a whole. In numerous polls and focus groups, voters of all ages, incomes, and ideologies have identified health care as a top concern for themselves and their families. And, a new public opinion survey sponsored by the Center for American Progress and SEIU's Americans for Health Care reveals unprecedented support for systemic reform.
This event will feature an overview of these survey findings and explore how health advocates and policymakers can use this information to strengthen their messages and further their policy goals. The afternoon will also include discussion of policy responses that engage public support and strategies for highlighting coverage issues this year and in the future.

Monday, April 24, 2006
Program: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Refreshments will be provided.
Admission is free.

Best Western: Helena Great Northern Hotel
835 Great Northern Blvd.
Helena, MT 59601
Phone: (406) 457-5500

Biography

John Halpin is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress focusing on progressive philosophy, history, and strategy. His current research and writing is focused on a more formal study of the progressive movement’s infrastructure: its intellectual institutions and networks for policy development; its reach in the media and capacity to disseminate new ideas; its effectiveness in coalition building and advocacy on behalf of progressive ideas; and the capacities of its various organizations. Prior to joining American Progress, Halpin was as a Senior Associate at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. In this capacity, he managed quantitative and qualitative research for the Gore-Lieberman 2000 campaign and a range of congressional, state legislative, and initiative campaigns in the U.S as well as organizational efforts for SEIU, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and the Open Society Institute. Halpin received his B.A. from Georgetown University and his M.A. in American Politics and Political Theory from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Karen Davenport is Director of Health Policy at the Center for American Progress. Before joining CAP, she served as Washington Director for the Medicare Rights Center, coordinating the organization’s national policy activities, partnership development and fundraising activities. As a Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she developed and managed national programs dedicated to increasing health insurance coverage. As a Legislative Assistant to Senator Bob Kerrey, she was responsible for staffing the Senator’s work on Medicare, Medicaid, public health, welfare and social issues. Her earlier federal experience includes serving as a specialist in Medicaid legislation for the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) and serving on the White House Health Care Reform Task Force. Davenport earned an MPA from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and a B.A. in Political Science from Whitman College.

Peter Van Vranken is an outreach consultant for the Center for American Progress. Before working with CAP, Van Vranken served in the office of Governor Howard Dean as his Health Policy Advisor from 1999 to 2003. In addition, Van Vranken was Governor Dean’s representative to the National Governors Association (NGA) and Democratic Governors Association (DGA). During Governor Dean’s bid for the presidency of the United States, Van Vranken served as Director of Health Policy for Dean for America. Most recently Van Vranken worked as the Director of Healthcare Outreach for Democratic National Committee and the presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry. Van Vranken graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

The Center for American Progress Action Fund is the sister advocacy organization of the Center for American Progress. The Action Fund transforms progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, legislative action, grassroots organizi WEEL is a grassroots, economic and social justice organization in the state of Montana.

Progressive Legislative Action Network (PLAN) is a national orgranization, functioning as a meeting space for progressive legislators, activists, and citizens. The mission of PLAN is to pass progressive legislation in all fifty states by providing coordinated research and strategic advocacy tools to forward-thinking state legislators.

Working for Equality and Economic Liberation (WEEL) is a grassroots, economic and social justice organization in the state of Montana. WEEL redefines political issues by raising awareness of basic human needs, ranging from housing to healthcare. The organization believes that the politics of poverty must turn from a discussion about numbers to a compassionate conversation about people.

Senator Durbin- Affordable Health Insurance for Every American by 2010
America's Moral and Economic Imperative

  • Event Information
  • Video: Introduction by John Podesta (QuickTime)
  • Video: Remarks by Sen. Dick Durbin (QuickTime)

    • Reframing the Health Care Debate: A Progressive Health Care Narrative

    Featured Speakers:
    Mark Smith, Private Sector Practice, Sellers Feinberg Consulting
    Walter Tsou, Spokesperson, Philadelphia Area Committee to Defend Health Care
    John Halpin, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
    Jeanne Lambrew, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

    Moderated by:
    Peter Van Vranken, Health Program Consultant, Center for American Progress

    Skyrocketing health costs and stagnant incomes threaten American families, even as war, record deficits, and natural disasters are weakening our economy as a whole. In numerous polls and focus groups, voters of all ages, incomes, and ideologies have identified health care as a top concern for themselves and their families. And, a new public opinion survey sponsored by the Center for American Progress and SEIU's Americans for Health Care reveals unprecedented support for systemic reform.

    This event will feature an overview of these survey findings and explore how health advocates and policymakers can use this information to strengthen their messages and further their policy goals. The afternoon will also include discussion of policy responses that engage public support and strategies for highlighting coverage issues this year and in the future.

    Tuesday, May 9, 2006
    Program: 11:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    Lunch will be provided.
    Admission is free.

    SEIU District 1199P Office
    1500 North 2nd St.
    Harrisburg, PA 17102
    717-238-3030

    Biography

    Mark Smith

    Walter Tsou, MD, MPH is the Immediate Past President of the American Public Health Association. Currently, he is on the visiting faculties of the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel School of Public Health. He served as Health Commissioner of Philadelphia from April 2000 to February 2002. Prior to his appointment, he was the founding Deputy Director for Personal Health Services and Medical Director of the Montgomery County (PA) Health Department from 1991-2000. Before 1991, he was the Clinical Director in the Division of Ambulatory Health Services for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. He has extensive experience in public health and has lectured widely on health disparities. He is founding member of the National Board of Public Health Examiners and the board of Physicians for a National Health Program. Locally he is on the boards of Philadelphia Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Philadelphia Area Committee to Defend Health Care, the Institute for Social Medicine and Community Health, the Section on Public Health at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Chestnut Hill Healthcare Foundation. His medical degree is from the University of Pennsylvania; his MPH is from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and he has an honorary Doctorate in Medical Sciences from Drexel University.

    John Halpin is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress focusing on progressive philosophy, history, and strategy. His current research and writing is focused on a more formal study of the progressive movement’s infrastructure: its intellectual institutions and networks for policy development; its reach in the media and capacity to disseminate new ideas; its effectiveness in coalition building and advocacy on behalf of progressive ideas; and the capacities of its various organizations. Prior to joining American Progress, Halpin was as a Senior Associate at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. In this capacity, he managed quantitative and qualitative research for the Gore-Lieberman 2000 campaign and a range of congressional, state legislative, and initiative campaigns in the U.S as well as organizational efforts for SEIU, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and the Open Society Institute. Halpin received his B.A. from Georgetown University and his M.A. in American Politics and Political Theory from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

    Jeanne Lambrew is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and an associate professor at George Washington University where she teaches health policy and conducts policy-relevant research on the uninsured, Medicaid, Medicare, and long-term care. Lambrew worked on health policy at the White House from 1997 through 2001, as the program associate director for health at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and as the senior health analyst at the National Economic Council. She also worked at the Department of Health and Human Services during the 1993-1994 health reform efforts, and coordinated analyses of budget proposals in 1995. Prior to serving at the White House, Lambrew was an assistant professor of public policy at Georgetown University (1996). She received her masters and Ph.D. from the Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and bachelor's degree from Amherst College.

    Peter Van Vranken is an outreach consultant for the Center for American Progress. Before working with CAP, Van Vranken served in the office of Governor Howard Dean as his Health Policy Advisor from 1999 to 2003. In addition, Van Vranken was Governor Dean’s representative to the National Governors Association (NGA) and Democratic Governors Association (DGA). During Governor Dean’s bid for the presidency of the United States, Van Vranken served as Director of Health Policy for Dean for America. Most recently Van Vranken worked as the Director of Healthcare Outreach for Democratic National Committee and the presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry. Van Vranken graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges.