What does a strong health care system for all need? The National League of Women Voters’ health care position* demands it include access, affordability and quality. That the current health care system in the United States does not meet these goals is plain. This causes major challenges for families, businesses and government at all levels.  Panelists will describe how improved Medicare for All can more successfully achieve these goals.

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PANELISTS:

Susan Pfoutz Smereck, PhD, RN, is a professor emeritus from Eastern Michigan University. She has taught undergraduate and graduate nursing students in health care organization and community health nursing.  As a member of the LWVAAA she has been a member of the Advocacy Committee and the LWVUS Healthcare Caucus.

Kate Moore, PhD, RN holds graduate degrees in nursing administration. Out-of-pocket health care costs were the focus of her funded research. Initially, she was director of a Robert Wood Johnson/Pew Charitable Trusts grant to compare system health care costs and length-of-stay results between two nursing care delivery protocols. She taught leadership, management, and organizational systems to students in undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. Volunteer work included serving as a nurse in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. 

Jackie Wolf, PhD. In the 1980's, Jackie began reading about single payer health care while directing a research project on the health needs of lower income, black, urban elderly for the Case Western Reserve University Medical School (Clv, Ohio). In the 1990's, after moving to Massachusetts, she joined the League serving on the LWV MA Board, chairing the LWV Amherst MA Health Care Committee and participating in the LWVUS Healthcare Caucus. From 2006 - 2016, Jackie was co-chair of Mass-Care: The Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care which advocates for a state single payer plan as a model for the nation.

 *See League of Women Voters "Impact on Issues" pp 129 -134 for League position on healthcare.