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August 21, 2009
Kaiser Permanente Historian to Highlight Dr. Sidney Garfield, Health Care Reform, at The Commonwealth Club
Dr. Sidney R. Garfield’s vision of health care and health care reform — and a look at how many of those ideas are central to today’s health care reform debate — will feature prominently in a Kaiser Permanente historian’s presentation to The Commonwealth Club of California on Aug. 25.
Tom Debley, Kaiser Permanente’s director of heritage resources, will give an evening presentation to The Commonwealth Club titled “The Long Quest for Health Care Reform: A Bay Area Doctor’s Belief in Health Care as a Right.”
Debley, co-author of the Kaiser Permanente history blog, “A History of Total Health,” said that a recent PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer segment served as inspiration for part of his talk. “I will use this to lead off … because there was little in the 10-minute report that said anything different from what Dr. Sidney R. Garfield, co-founder of Kaiser Permanente, said back in the 1930s — including his idea to put all needed care “under one roof,” Debley wrote in a blog item about the talk.
The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum, bringing together its more than 18,000 members for more than 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy. It was founded in 1903 and has played host to speakers from Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Gates. For more information, go to www.commonwealthclub.org. To watch a video recording of the talk, go to http://fora.tv/2009/08/25/The_Long_Quest_for_Health_Care_Reform_Tom_Debley.
