St. Olaf College Institute for Freedom and Community is hosting this two part discussion, which begins at 7 p.m. in Tomson Hall 280, Northfield, MN. It is free and open to the public. It will be streamed and archived online.
The Institute for Freedom and Community’s spring series on Freedom, Community, and Health Care, for part I will have David Craig and Joan Tronto engage in a discussion on whether the United States should move to a single-payer health care system.
Craig is a professor of religious studies and has served as the Thomas H. Lake Scholar in Religion and Philanthropy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Tronto is a professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. She teaches in the Political Science and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Department, and is a member of the affiliate faculty at the Center for Bioethics.
The part II discussion on April 26th will have Amitabh Chandra and Tyler Cowen continue the discussion.
Chandra is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy Research at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisors, and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Cowen is an economist, blogger, best-selling author, and professor of economics at George Mason University and at the Center for the Study of Public Choice. He is also the director of the Mercatus Center, a research center dedicated to bridging the gap between academic research and public policy problems by training students, conducting research of consequence, and persuasively communicating economic ideas to solve society’s most pressing problems and advance knowledge about how markets work to improve people’s lives.