Grassroots Tosa and Grassroots Northshore
cordially invite you to attend …
The Affordable Care Act of 2010
What it means to you and Wisconsin
Wednesday, August 1
7 – 8:30 p.m.
Wauwatosa Library- Firefly Room
76th & North Avenue
Dr. Richard E. Rieselbach is nationally known on health care reform issues and is professor emeritus of medicine at UW Madison. He served as a Robert Wood Johnson Health policy fellow with Sen. Edward Kennedy on the Senate health committee.
Learn how Affordable Care Act (ACA) will:
- Restructure our healthcare system
- Provide reforms that will help small businesses and every family in our state
- Lower healthcare costs
- Expand access to affordable healthcare to thousands of uninsured people
- Give tax credits to small businesses to reduce healthcare costs
- Enroll uninsured individuals and small businesses
Learn “truth from fiction” about claims on ACA:
- Claims that this legislation will be a “job-killer” or a burden for small business job creation
- Claims that ACA is an excessive cost to taxpayers
- Claims that ACA will not improve access and improve the quality of healthcare
Kevin Kane joined Citizen Action of Wisconsin in June of 2011 as the Healthcare Organizer. Kevin holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Political Science from Marquette University. He is a former AmeriCorps VISTA and a recent Fellow at the Center for Progressive Leadership
Guest Speakers:
- Dr. Richard E. Reiselbach- UW-Madison professor emeritus of medicine
- Kevin Kane, Healthcare Organizer, Citizen Action of Wisconsin
- Cathy Mahaffey – Chief Operating Officer, Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative
