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February 23, 2016 Secretary Gee to Appear on Louisiana Public Square, Discuss Medicaid Expansion
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Pictured from left to right: Michael R Bertaut, Healthcare Economist, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana; Dr. Rebekah Gee, Secretary of La. Dept. of Health & Hospitals; Stephen F. Wright, Senior V.P., CHRISTUS Health Louisiana; Gary Wiltz, Chief Executive Officer of Teche Action Clinic and Marvin McGraw, Louisiana Public Square guest moderator. |
Dr. Rebekah Gee, LDH secretary, will appear on Louisiana Public Square tomorrow night (Wednesday, February 24) at 7 p.m. on LPB HD and WLAE in New Orleans. She and her fellow panelists will discuss how expanding Medicaid will affect the lives of those who will now have access to health care, what expansion will mean for the cost of health care and insurance for everyone else in the state, how hospitals will be affected and more.
The other panelists will be:
- Michael R Bertaut, Healthcare Economist, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana
- Gary Wiltz, Chief Executive Officer of Teche Action Clinic; and
- Stephen F. Wright, Senior V.P., CHRISTUS Health Louisiana
LPB CEO Beth Courtney and journalist and Marketing Director Marvin McGraw will moderate the discussion. Visit www.lpb.org/publicsquare for more information.