March 2, 2010 - The Arlington Chamber of Commerce is beginning a new event series to benefit the community and its members. The new series, called Hot Topics Seminars, will explore difficult policy issues and business challenges facing the community.
The first of these seminars, held this Thursday at 11:30 a.m., will explore how our health care system got to where it is and how businesses will continue to be affected whether or not the currently proposed reforms are passed.
Don
Lavanty, J.D., professor of health care policy and administration at Marymount University, will be the featured speaker. He said, "We need to figure
out how we got here and how to make some form of health insurance
available to all. It needs to be affordable if it continues to be a
condition of employment and maintain its unique payment system."
"We're
trying to offer our members the opportunity to get expert insight on key issues
they are confronting," said the 2010 Chamber Board
Chair, Philip Keating, of Bean, Kinney, and Korman, PC. "It's the Chamber
members at the local level who really are the people who create jobs. They are the
foundation of the economy. With health care being such a big component of their
day to day business, it's important they be informed on the issue. We hope events
like this lead them to get involved and contact their representatives."
The event is sponsored by Virginia Hospital Center and hosted by WETA, at 2775 South Quincy Street, in Arlington. Media representatives are invited; please contact Kate Roche at (703) 525-2400 to schedule attendance. Tickets are $35 for the public and $25 for Arlington
Chamber members. Lunch will be provided. Register
online here.
Don Lavanty, J.D. is a
professor of Business in the School of
Business Administration. At Marymount, he
teaches graduate courses in
law and for the Health Care Management program. He was also a presenter
on "Health Care Issues before the 106th Congress" at
the Washington
Intelligence Reports on National Health Care forum.
