LWV News:

The League of Women Voters of Los Alamos is hosting its monthly community Zoom Lunch with a Leader at noon Tuesday, Dec. 15.

You will find the link to get the zoom address at the bottom. Their speakers, who will be discussing the Health Security Act, are Mary Feldblum, Ph.D., and Rick Madden, MD.

Feldblum has more than two decades of experience working on a variety of health-related issues of concern to New Mexicans including patient protection, hospital and health plan sales and conversions and different approaches to providing health care insurance coverage.

For 10 years she headed the New Mexico Health Care Project for Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports Magazine.  She serves as executive director of the Health Security for New Mexicans Campaign, a broad coalition of more than 170 organizations that support the Health Security Act, legislation that would enable New Mexico to set up its own comprehensive health plan.

As a former director of Hofstra University’s Institute of Applied Social Science, Feldblum has worked as a consultant in a variety of areas including social policy research, negotiations, training and mediation. She has a Ph.D. in sociology with a minor in economics.

Madden attended UNM Medical School and UNM Family Medicine Residency, finishing in 1983. He has practiced in Belen since 1985. As a former member of the American Academy of Family Physicians Board of Directors, he has been involved with decisions and initiatives related to reforming health care nationally, as well as in New Mexico and in his own practice with Presbyterian Medical Group. 

Madden served as speaker of the New Mexico Medical Society until 2013. Hes an active member of the New Mexico Medicaid Advisory Committee to the New Mexico Human Services Department, and chairs committees for the New Mexico Academy of Family Physicians (Legislative Affairs) and the New Mexico Medical Society (Health System Coverage for New Mexico).

You are invited to a Zoom meeting. 
When: Dec 15, 2020 12:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada) 

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUodequqzgoHNYg0H1uA3Lvg2SbayTFlrhq 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.