Listen Now - Health Insurance Town Hall

How will new federal and state laws affect the way we pay for medical care? 

Valley Public Radio hosted a Health Insurance town hall meeting in collaboration with The Great Valley Center. We invited a panel of guest experts to explain the changes. This two-hour event was recorded in front of an audience at College of the Sequoias in Visalia on Nov. 9, 2010.

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Panelists include: Dr. Len Finocchio (Ph.D.), Senior Program Officer at the California HealthCare Foundation; Verla Oliver, Director of Consulting at Single-Point Outsourcing; Dr. John Capitman (Ph.D.), Professor of Public Health at California State University, Fresno; Norma Forbes, Executive Director at Fresno Healthy Community Access Partners; Greg Hund, CEO of CalViva Health; Dr. Michelle Quiogue (M.D.), President of California Academy of Family Physicians. 

Our debaters are investment broker Tom Fife and attorney Joe Altschule. 

Our correspondent Shellie Branco revisits a family with an autistic daughter and their changing insurance challenges.

Special funding for this program comes from the California Health Care Foundation