Click below to view various recorded materials from the forum.  Due to the poor sound quality of the recorded program, we are including the text of some of the presentations and a link to The Oak Ridger newspaper article about the forum.

• Forum Recording
• The Abandoned Patient, William Culbert, M.D.
• The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Hospitals and Communities, Judy Roitman, LMSW, Executive Director of the Tennessee Health Care Campaign
• The Impacts of Health and Health Care Disparities within Minority and Marginalized Communities, Rev. Derrick Hammond (text not available)
• If We Pull the Medicaid Expansion Lever, What Can We Expect to Happen from an Economic Perspective?, Matthew C. Harris, UTK Professor of Economics (text not available)
• Oak Ridger article on the forum, Carolyn Krause
  

The League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge and its co-sponsors invite the community to a forum on Medicaid Expansion in Tennessee.  The forum will be held on Tuesday, January 17, 2023, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (EST) at the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Pollard Auditorium on 210 Badger Avenue in Oak Ridge.

Also available by zoom, the forum may be accessed with the following link:
Topic: Forum on Medicaid Expansion in Tennessee
Time: Jan 17, 2023 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88578172161
Meeting ID: 885 7817 2161

The forum is for the purpose of further informing the Tennessee electorate on the urgency of Medicaid expansion in Tennessee.  But more importantly, it will seek to convince Tennessee legislators of their accountability in this Tennessee crisis on health care and the need for them to fix it.

Zack Buck, JD., UTK Associate Professor of Law, specializing in health law, bioethics and tort law, will moderate a panel of four speakers, including

• William Culbert, MD (Board Certified Family Physician), D.C., B.S. Engineering. speaking on The Abandoned Patient
• Judy Roitman, LMSW, Executive Director of the Tennessee Health Care Campaign, addressing The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Hospitals and Communities
• the Reverend Derrick Hammond, Pastor of Oak Valley Baptist Church, addressing The Impacts of Health and Health Care Disparities within minority and marginalized communities
•  and Matthew C. Harris, PhD, UTK Professor of Economics, specializing in Health Care, who will ask If we pull the Medicaid expansion lever, what can we expect to happen from an economic perspective? The program will allow significant time for discussion.

A host of co-sponsors are joining the Oak Ridge League in speaking to the importance of Medicaid expansion. These include

• the American Association of University Women/OR
• the American Association of University Women/TN
• the League Women Voters/TN
• the Tennessee Health Care Campaign
• SEIU Local 205 (Methodist Medical)
• the National Alliance on Mental Illness
• New Direction Health Care Solutions
• the Tennessee Disability Coalition
• Women’s Interfaith Dialogue of Oak Ridge
• the Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville
• Oak Valley Baptist Church
• the National Association of Social Workers/TN Chapter
• Nurture the Next
• the Knox/Oak Ridge chapter of the Central Labor Council
• Interfaith Worker Justice of East Tennessee
• Tennessee Out-Reach Center for the Homeless (Torch)
• Oak Ridge Solutions on Racism
• the Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge
• NAACP of Oak Ridge
• United Way of Anderson County
• and Jobs with Justice of East Tennessee.

The League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge is a nonpartisan political organization for men and women. It encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy. All are welcome.