Insight Kansas City - Uncompensated Healthcare

INSIGHT KANSAS CITY BEGINS WITH LOOK AT CRITICAL CONDITION OF UNCOMPENSATED HEALTHCARE

By the end of 2004, over 45 million Americans lacked medical coverage. Six million Americans lost coverage between 2000 and 2004. And according to Duke University's head of emergency medicine, the pressures on hospital trauma centers and emergency rooms have "reached levels unprecedented in America's history."

Who pays for the uninsured? You do. We all do. When the uninsured have no place to go, America's emergency rooms become clinics of last resort for tens of millions of Americans. The fiscal stress for hospitals, businesses and taxpayers grows each day. 

That's why the Chamber is proud to debut Insight Kansas City, a new program designed to give you the most current information possible from leaders in business and experts in government on issues critical to Kansas City. In 2006, our focus will be health care, ranging from the promise of new technologies to the perils of relentlessly rising costs.

We're bringing the uninsured and underinsured center-stage on Wednesday, May 31^st, 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM at the Marriot Hotel, 200 W. 12^th Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Please join Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City President Tom Bowser, Truman Medical Centers President John Bluford and FirstGuard Health Plan President Joy Wheeler during this breakfast meeting for a report from the front lines and for "insight" into what we can do to help hold the line on costs and coverage.

We are no longer taking registrations for this event.  If you would like to be placed on a waiting list, please contact Heather LeBlanc at leblanc@kcchamber.com or call (816) 374-5446 if you have questions.