Icahn School of Medicine @ Mt. Sinai — Debate: The Role of Profits in Healthcare
Hess Building, Davis Auditorium Leon and Norma Hess Center for Science and Medicine, 1470 Madison Ave, New York, NY, United States
Free
BRI Student Leaders, the debaters and moderator.
Geoff Wilson
NOTE: This event takes place in the eastern time zone. Food will be served; RSVPs are greatly appreciated by clicking the green REGISTER button top right.
BRI-Mount Sinai and The Arthur N. Rupe Foundation will be hosting a debate and a discussion about the legality of physician aided dying. Please join us to debate the following Resolution:
Dr. Stefan Baumrin
Arguing the Affirmative: Dr. David Leven, Executive Director of Compassion & Choices of New York.
Arguing the Opposition: Dr. Stefan Baumrin (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University and J.D. Columbia University School of Law) will debate the question of whether physicians should participate intentionally in hastening a patient's death. Following the debate, students will break out into small groups to discuss the issue further. Issues related to physician autonomy, patient wellbeing, and the intersection of ethics, law, and government will be explored.
Moderator: Robert Zimbroff
Reception will begin at 6:30pm. The debate will begin at 7:00pm, Eastern.
Please join us for a lively debate on the merits and pitfalls of single payer healthcare, sponsored by students for PHNP. We will focus on the question:
This will be a debate between Dr. Ed Weisbart, Chair of Missouri | Physicians for a National Health Plan (PHNP), and Dr. Josh Umbehr, founder of AtlasMD, on what provides the most effective ways to reduce costs and improve healthcare outcomes: a single-payer healthcare system, or other solutions based on the free market.
Dr. Weisbart will be arguing the affirmative, supporting a single-payer system.
Dr. Umbehr will be arguing in opposition, against a single-payer system.
Moderator: Dr. Kamal Gursahani
Associate Professor of Surgery
Director of Operations, Emergency Department
Fellow, Bander Center of Medical Ethics
Please join us for this FREE event. The BRI chapter at the University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus is hosting a lively, informative and important debate on the future of Colorado healthcare. At issue is adopting "Amendment 69," or Colorado Care, a proposition to have a state-run taxpayer funded healthcare system in Colorado.
We will have a 30-minute lunch and information session on Amendment 69, followed by 60-minutes of two-on-two Oxford Union style debate.
Peter Viccellio, MD, Clinical Director of the Emergency Department at Stony Brook, will be debating Francis S. Stellaccio, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, on the proper role of government in health care and on the effects of the ACA.
Francis S. Stellaccio, MD
All are welcome to attend Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine-BRI chapter's first debate of the 2016-17 academic year. We are looking forward to a great year of events, and this should start us off by sparking some well-deserved, collegiate and amicable debate on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Refreshments will be served. Please use the green Register button so that we can be sure to have enough refreshments for all.
All are welcome to attend this debate concerning the pros and cons of single payer healthcare.
MODERATOR: Dr. Oscar Marcilla, MD - Debate Moderator (Associate Director Emergency Medicine at Flushing Hospital Medical Center)
The Students for a National Health Program NEOMED Chapter is hosting a debate on health care policy featuring Dr. John Ross and Dr. Sameer Lakha. Dr. John Ross, former president of Physicians for a National Health Program, advocates for a National Health Care System. Dr. Sameer Lakha, founder of the Benjamin Rush Institute chapter at […]
BRI Chapter meeting to address our newest program - 2nd Opinion Debates at the University of Wisconsin Medical College (MCW). BRI Medical Director, Dr. Beth Haynes and Dr. Joe Eichenseher representing SNaHP will each give a presentation about their respective expertise in Free-Market Healthcare and Medicare for All followed by an open discussion to answer […]
Trenton Schmale, DO (and BRI Alum) and Adam Habig, Freedom Healthworks will be part of a single payer healthcare debate at Indiana University School of Medicine on February 16, 2019 at 11:00 am. This debate is part of a medical student AMA regional meeting with 150-200 students from 6 or 7 states attending. For additional […]
