press advisory - Is health insurance making us sick?
Liz Dupont-Diehl
Is Health Insurance Making Us Sick?
Movie Screening and Panel Discussion with Wendell Potter
When: Wednesday, October 15, 6 pm
What: Film screening and Panel Discussion
Where: CT Legislative Office Building Room 2E
Why: Every day, health insurance companies make billions of dollars for executives and shareholders by denying people care. Join us for an electrifying movie about a group of young people who take on the broken health care system, followed by a discussion with national and state leaders in health insurance advocacy and reform.
Join us on October 15 for an evening of entertainment and discussion about health insurance in America, and what we can do about it.
We will watch the heist movie Midas, shot entirely in Hartford, whose heroes take on an insurance monolith from the inside. We will then have a panel discussion with national health insurance reformer Wendell Potter, Midas filmmaker TJ Noel-Sullivan, Senators Saud Anwar and Matt Lesser, and Connecticut’s Healthcare Advocate Kathleen Holt.
Agenda:
6 pm Welcome and sign ins
6:15 Opening remarks, TJ Noel-Sullivan, on why he made Midas
6:30 - 8 watch movie
8-9 Panel discussion
Introductions and framing - Rose Ferraro
Wendell Potter - 15 minutes
Saud Anwar - 5 minutes
Matt Lesser - 5 minutes
Kathleen Holt - 5 minutes
Questions/discussion - 30 min
Closing remarks - Rose Ferraro
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