About Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan
Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan is a group of Indiana citizens who support a publicly financed, privately delivered (single payer) universal health plan at the state and national level. HCHP is working to educate the public and the legislature about the benefits of a single payer plan. We are seeking individuals and groups who have an interest in helping achieve this goal. The U.S. spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care, yet it ranks only 39 among nations in terms of health outcomes and we have 46 million without health coverage and millions more with inadequate coverage. Private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume 31 percent of every health care dollar. Streamlining payment though a single nonprofit payer would save more than $350 billion per year nationally, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans. HCHP is a state affiliate of Physicians for a National Health Program and supports its goal of national single-payer health insurance.
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Friday, March 04, 2011
Rob Stone, the director and co-founder of Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan (HCHP) and the state coordinator in Indiana for Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), will give a presentation on Health Care Reform 2011 at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 24 in Mitchell Auditorium in Health Professions Center at the University of Southern Indiana. Since 2009, Dr. Stone has sat on the PNHP national board.
Dr. Stone has practiced emergency medicine at Bloomington Hospital since 1983. He was the medical director of the Community Health Access Program Clinic in Bloomington from 2005 to 2007 until it transformed into the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic. He continues to volunteer at the new clinic. He is assistant clinical professor of Emergency Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine.
Dr. Stone lectures to medical and lay audiences on health care reform throughout Indiana and beyond. He has appeared before the Indiana State Legislature. In 2006 he received the Quentin Young Health Activist Award from PNHP. In March 2007, he and his wife Karen Green Stone were named Citizens of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers Indiana Region 6 for their work with HCHP. In May 2007, the Indiana Public Health Association presented its Citizen Advocacy Award to Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan.
Dr. Stone is past director of the Bloomington Hospital Emergency Department and past chief of staff of Bloomington Hospital. He was on the Bloomington Hospital Board of Directors from 1998 to 2004. In 2008 he was elected as the alternate trustee for the Second District, Indiana State Medical Society Board of Trustees. He has served for many years on the board of Unity Physician Group.
Born and raised in Evansville, Indiana, he graduated from Dartmouth College Phi Beta Kappa, and the University of Colorado Medical School. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan is a state affiliate of Physicians for a National Health Program and supports its goal of national single payer health insurance. HCHP has chapters throughout the state of Indiana. The USI program is sponsored by the USI Center for Social Justice and the National Association of Social Workers Indiana Chapter.
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