Health care debate to take place Monday

A “nonpartisan” health care debate will take place at 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday in the Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union. It is sponsored by the Commission on Multicultural Understanding’s Teachable Moments Committee and the Union Board.

Several IU professors will discuss the current health care system and the proposed health care reforms. Each panel member will speak for less than seven minutes on a pre-determined topic. There will also be a question and answer session.

Before the panel begins, the IU College Republicans and the IU College Democrats will give their views on health care reform.

The panel members are:

John Hill, professor of accounting and the Arthur M. Weimer chair of business administration at the Kelley School of Business

Milton Fisk, professor emeritus of philosophy

Nicole C. Quon, School of Public and Environmental Affairs assistant professor

Martin Spechler, professor of economics

Dr. Robert Stone, assistant clinical professor of Emergency Medicine at the IU School of Medicine and founder of the group Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan

Dr. Ed Marshall, vice president for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs.