Healthcare Reform or Horror?

Al Read 

September 24, 2008

from 7:00 to 9:00 PM

at  315 East Costilla in Colorado Springs

Healthcare reform is a big issue for the upcoming election, but what's it all about? Does Canada have a much better idea up there, or are they slowly dying off as they wait months for needed procedures? What are Obama and McCain proposing to fix our healthcare problems at home? Get an introduction to these issues, enjoy my Flash animation cartoons that I've learned to do, and ask some good questions!

Al Read is a biochemist with a 30 year career in pharmaceutical and medical device development. His last position involved purifying and analyzing antibodies against anthrax that were produced in transgenic tobacco plants.

However, since every company or department or division he worked for eventually closed or went belly-up (a scenario familiar to many of us in the Springs), he is now semi-retired. During this time he has created a line of 5 illustrated and narrated cancer education CDs for diagnosed patients (see www.lifelinecancercoach.com).

Making him especially qualified to give this healthcare talk is the research that went into his website titled www.getsickaroundtheworld.org, which explains to the layperson in plain language how healthcare works in 5 different countries plus outlines the positions of the presidential candidates. He likes to say it's easy to give a non-partisan healthcare reform talk because there's no such thing as Republican cancer or Democratic kidney failure, so it's time to put labels aside and acknowledge that "no healthcare system is perfect, but some are less imperfect than others."