Spring 2019 OLLI Catalog
The Osher Lifelong Learning at California State University Dominguez Hills is a program of educational, cultural, and social opportunities for retired and semi-retired individuals age 50 and above. Members experience taking courses in a relaxed atmosphere for the pure pleasure of learning.
The Osher Lifelong Learning at California State University Dominguez Hills is a program of educational, cultural, and social opportunities for retired and semi-retired individuals age 50 and above. Members experience taking courses in a relaxed atmosphere for the pure pleasure of learning.
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HEALTH AND WELLNESS<br />
American Healthcare<br />
Is Rigged Against You!<br />
“The American medical system has stopped focusing on<br />
health or even science. Instead it attends more or less<br />
single-mindedly to its own profits.”<br />
“The current market for healthcare… is deeply, perhaps<br />
fatally, flawed.” 1<br />
—Dr. Elizabeth Rosenthal<br />
NEW!<br />
It is clear it is not just big Pharma increasing cost. More examples of<br />
rigging our de facto healthcare system will be presented.<br />
Instructor: Joy Jurena, RN, MHA,<br />
<strong>OLLI</strong> and Omnilore Member<br />
Wednesday, April 10<br />
1:30pm – 3:30pm<br />
Extended Education Building,<br />
EE-1218<br />
Fee: Free to <strong>OLLI</strong> Members<br />
NLLL 355 Section 06<br />
Course No. 23942<br />
What is the cost to taxpayers and individuals of our “flawed”<br />
healthcare? PWC 2 in 2012, put this price of excess at $1.2 trillion of “In that third week in March in 2010,<br />
$2.2 trillion—55% of all healthcare costs. Today—with healthcare America committed itself for the first<br />
costs at $3.5 trillion—the price of excess is $1.9 trillion a year. time to the principle of universal…<br />
How do “We the People” stop the hemorrhaging of our federal health-care coverage.”<br />
budget and individual bank accounts for medical debt?<br />
—David Frum<br />
The Atlantic June 2017<br />
We must insist on universal health care with price transparency,<br />
appropriate regulations, not for profit basic services, and “Skin in<br />
the Game” for all. Then the focus can be on preventing chronic<br />
conditions—the root cause of most healthcare costs.<br />
What should Universal<br />
Two consumer driven Universal Healthcare Systems—Switzerland Healthcare Be?<br />
and Singapore—will be compared in detail to the single payer<br />
model advocated by Senator Bernie Sanders.<br />
1. Individual Health<br />
Basic Sickness Insurance for all<br />
Participant discussion is strongly encouraged.<br />
2. Population Health<br />
Widespread programs to reverse<br />
From the 10 Economic Rules of a<br />
food, drug and other addictions.<br />
Dysfunctional Medical Market<br />
Regulations and taxes to significantly<br />
1. More treatment is always better.<br />
reduce (ex. tobacco) production and<br />
Default to the most expensive option. purchase of unhealthy products.<br />
2. There is no such thing as a fixed price Both are essential to Democracy &<br />
for a procedure or test.<br />
saving mother earth.<br />
3. No billing standard. There’s money to<br />
—Joy Jurena<br />
be made for anything and everything. 1<br />
1<br />
Rosenthal, Elisabeth. An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business<br />
and How You Can Take It Back<br />
2<br />
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute: The price of excess<br />
Identifying waste in healthcare spending<br />
<strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2019</strong> | www.csudh.edu/olli | (310) 243-3208 15
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