LWV NEWS

The Los Alamos League of Women Voters is having their monthly community ZOOM Lunch with a Leader on Tuesday, Dec. 15 at noon. 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 and Rick Madden. 

Mary has over 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 currently serves as the Executive Director of the Health Security for New Mexicans Campaign, a broad coalition of over 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, she 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.

Mary 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 ten years she headed the New Mexico Health Care Project for Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports Magazine.   She currently serves as the 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.

Rick 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. 

He served as Speaker of the NM Medical Society until 2013. Rick is an active member of the NM Medicaid Advisory Committee to the NM Human Services Department, and chairs committees for the NM Academy of Family Physicians (Legislative Affairs) and the NM Medical Society (Health System Coverage for NM).

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

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