Jordan Halevy, MS1 and BRI-Sackler chapter Founder and President will deliver an overview of the history of healthcare in the US, from the founding of the AMA and mutual societies all the way up to the ACA and beyond. The presentation will highlight the numerous government interventions into the healthcare market and how those distortions still affect us to this day.

All are invited to attend a lecture by Robert Nelson, MD, cofounder and spokesman for the Free Market Medical Association-Georgia Chapter. Dr. Nelson is also a DPC physician in the Atlanta area. Lunch will be provided.

This lunchtime presentation is part of a study being conducted by Will Craghead on DPC's ability to influence medical students to enter the primary care specialty.Will Craghead is a PA student and BRI chapter member.

All are invited to attend this lunch lecture on healthcare policy with Mr. John Torinus. Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP.

John Torinus, author of The Grassroots Health Care Revolution and former CEO of of Serigraph, believes that the only way to improve health care and lower health costs are at the local level. In this talk, he will address how companies need to return to private health care and the effect that it will have on health care quality and cost.

All are invited to attend a lunch lecture by Drs. Pete and Christi Ghaleb. Direct Primary Care is an increasingly popular practice model which focuses on value-based care by offering patients more comprehensive services for a low monthly fee instead of billing insurance. Like a Netflix subscription for medicine, DPC offers "all you can treat" primary care that is patient-centered, and eliminates traditional Fee-For-Service billing (Blockbuster).

All are welcome to attend this lunch lecture. Food will be provided to those who RSVP within 48 hours of the event.

Think you know what insurance is? Do you know how it relates to healthcare costs? Come find out what you may not know!

Dr. Beth Haynes, executive director of the Benjamin Rush Institute, will be meeting with students of the Stony Brook Medical School campus during lunch to discuss the topic: "What Is and Isn't Insurance, and Why It Matters to Controlling Healthcare Costs."

POST-EVENT SUMMARY: Forty-nine students and faculty attended this lunch lecture. Dr. Beth Haynes, Executive Director of BRI, gave an hour long presentation over lunch to first year students of the Stony Brook School of Medicine. As our chapter feels not many medical students receive any formal education on the topics of health policy (unless they are in a dual degree program), we asked Dr. Haynes to speak about "What is and isn't health insurance."

"Dr. Haynes's presentation provided a great foundation to understanding the language involved in debating healthcare policy, and the importance of understanding terms which are used inappropriately (specifically, "insurance"). By clarifying the nature of insurance as just one mechanism by which healthcare can be financed, it sowed the seeds of more productive conversation amongst the student body (overheard in the halls and facebook, long after the presentation had ended)." ~Sean Randazzo, event coordinator