Today, beginning at 1pm ET, President Obama is hosting a one-day health forum at the White House to officially launch a discussion on how we can bring about meaningful change in health care. The White House Forum on Health Reform represents the next step in the administration's strategy to fix our broken health care system. It will bring together key stakeholders in the health care debate - those who worked to pass health care reform a decade ago and those who worked to defeat it.
The 120 participants - Republicans, Democrats, insurance companies, labor, doctors and patient advocates, including SEIU's President Andy Stern, Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger and SEIU Healthcare chair Dennis Rivera - will be working together to offer up ideas for the best way to make reform happen and increase coverage for all Americans. Rivera will participate in one of five panels at the Summit, discussing how to bring down health care costs.
In addition to this forum, the White House has also launched a new website, healthreform.gov to allow Americans to follow Washington's progress in enacting real reform. Starting at 1pm, you can go to healthreform.gov and watch live video streams of each session of the forum. Watch the White House Forum on Health Reform live now.
Reuter's has a list of groups who will be involved with the debate (SEIU, AARP, and Business Roundtable, to name just a few): http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0443193020090305








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