On Thursday, September 27th, Dr. C.L. Gray, a nationally recognized
writer, speaker and board certified physician, will be hosting a healthcare
forum in Cincinnati area to help educate Ohio voters on two of the most
important issues facing the election – healthcare and how it relates to the
economy.
Understand the debate and what is at stake
As a practicing physician who founded Physicians for Reform, Dr. Gray
has developed a powerful, compelling presentation that goes beyond facts and
figures and personalizes healthcare policy by looking at the origin of
divergent worldviews that battle for the soul of our nation. Researching over
2,500 years of healthcare philosophies, he charts a chilling course of how the
healthcare pendulum has swung from caring for the wellbeing of patients to
looking out for the financial interests of the state. Dr. Gray masterfully ties
this to our current healthcare law and economic situation, and explains what
this means for patients.
Details about the Forum
Healthcare: The Endgame
Time/Date: Thursday, September 27th from 7:00 PM to
9:00 PM
Location: Wingate by Wyndham & Meridian Conference
Center, 7500 Tylers Place Boulevard, West Chester, Ohio 45069. Presentation
will be in the Meridian I Room.
Cost: Free and open to the public
Why Healthcare? Why Now?
In 2011, the Healthcare Freedom Amendment (Issue 3) passed in all 88
counties, proving that healthcare freedom is an important, winning issue in
Ohio. We must use this issue to our advantage in the upcoming election to help
voters understand what’s at stake, so they can make an informed decision in
November.
Please join Dr. Gray for this informative, eye-opening
presentation
Physicians for Reform along with Tea Party Patriots and 60 Plus
Association are hosting these forums throughout the state. They are free and
open to the public. If you have any questions, please contact Amy Brighton
honoring1776@gmail.com.
Physicians for Reform is a 501(c)4 non-profit, non-partisan, advocacy
group designed to organize physicians, patients, and the business community in
an effort to shape the nation’s healthcare debate. It seeks to keep the
patient’s welfare the central focus of medicine, not the fluctuating interests
of government. The organization was founded in December of 2006 by Dr. Gray. www.physiciansforreform.org
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A little more about Dr Gray:
Dr. C. L. Gray is a nationally known writer, speaker, and
board certified physician practicing hospital-based medicine in western North
Carolina. In 2006 he founded Physicians for
Reform, a non-profit
organization dedicated to preserving patient-centered healthcare. Gray’s
current book, The Battle for America’s Soul, resulted from a decade
spent in research and analysis of the history and philosophy of medical ethics.
This book presents findings that link America’s present cultural divide with
the practice of Post-Hippocratic medicine.
Dr. Gray wrote multiple national op-eds including two pieces
specifically requested by FOX News covering President Obama’s 2010 State of the
Union Address and a the high profile 2010 Healthcare Summit. With some 400,000
readers, Gray’s piece Why Doctors are Leaving Medicare became one of the
most highly read opinion pieces FOX posted. Other op-ed’s appeared in The
Washington Times, Investors Business Daily, The Washington
Examiner, The Hill, and others. Gray has two scientific publications
to his credit and has authored two books.
Gray’s research, writing, and unique voice as a practicing
physician moved him onto the national stage as a widely sought public speaker.
He spoke to tens-of-thousands of people at town-halls in Texas, Georgia, and
North Carolina during the summer of 2009. Invited to speak on the West Lawn of
the U.S Capitol on September 12, 2009, Gray addressed the estimated 1.2+
million people at the Tea Party’s March on Washington.
Gray’s work now takes him to Washington and state capitals
where Physicians for Reform has been tapped to help craft solutions to
save Medicare and Medicaid from financial collapse. In 2010, physicians
underwent the longest interruption of payments in Medicare’s history. In
January of 2013 physicians will face a 30+ percent cut in Medicare
reimbursement; this places seniors at risk as doctors abandon Medicare in
record numbers. Nationwide nearly every state faced massive budget shortfalls
when the federal Medicaid funding of the stimulus bill ran out. These dilemmas
can only be solved through patient-centered, fiscally responsible reforms such
as outlined by Physicians for Reform.