Webinar Regional Satellite Location

Thursday, February 15, 2018
6:00-7:30 pm CST
First Mennonite Church of Iowa City
405 Myrtle Ave, Iowa City, IA 52246

For more information on the webinar, see the Webinar Page.

The Affordable Care Act under the Trump Administration

Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, JD

Professor Emeritus, Washington and Lee University

The Affordable Care Act resulted in a significant expansion of health care coverage to working-age Americans. What has happened-and is likely to happen-to this expansion, and to the people whom it helped, under the Trump Administration?

Tim Jost will provide a description of recent suggested and enacted changes in healthcare legislation in the past year. During the second half of this session, participants will be encouraged to engage in a discussion on the ethical considerations that we as Anabaptists have regarding healthcare legislation. There will also be a time for questions.

About the presenter:

Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, J.D., is an Emeritus Professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. Jost is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a consumer liaison representative to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. He is coauthor of a casebook, Health Law, used widely throughout the United States in teaching health law, and of a treatise and hornbook by the same name. He is also the author of Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement; Health Care Coverage Determinations: An International Comparative Study; Disentitlement? The Threats Facing our Public Health Care Programs and a Rights-Based Response, and Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics.

Jost is a contributing editor at Health Affairs and a frequent contributor to Health Affairs Blog. He has also written numerous articles and book chapters on health care regulation and comparative health law, including monographs on legal issues in health care reform for Georgetown’s O’Neill Center, the Fresh Thinking Project, the National Academy of Social Insurance and National Academy of Public Administration, and the New America Foundation and Urban Institute.

First MHF Regional Meeting in Iowa!

Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship (MHF) held its first Regional Meeting  in Iowa on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at the home of Nyle and Lauralee Kauffman near Iowa City.  Ten persons gathered for a delicious home-cooked dinner and heard Paul Leichty, MHF Executive Director, share about the work of MHF.  Participants in the meeting also shared briefly about their own work.