PLEASE NOTE! We will be meeting in a new location in 2011! The newest facility in Sun City is the Cowan Creek Amenity Center at 1433 Cool Spring Way, and we have reserved the Florence/Georgetown Rooms for all our regular meetings.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Time: 9:30 AM Coffee, 10:00 AM Meeting
Place: Cowan Creek Amenity Center, Florence / Georgetown Rooms
Speaker: J. James Rohack, MD, FACC, FACP
In Favor of Individual Health Mandate
Dr. James Rohack is the Director, Center for Healthcare Policy of Scott & White Healthcare. He also serves as Medical Director for System Improvement, Scott & White Health Plan. He is on the Faculty at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine as Professor of Internal Medicine. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease. His patient care emphasis is on general and consultative cardiology. Dr. Rohack has been at Scott & White since August 1986. From 2009 to 2010, J. James Rohack served as president of the American Medical Association, the leading group that represents physicians in the United States.
Dr. Rohack received his degrees at the University of Texas at El Paso (BS, 1976) and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (MD, 1980).
Recently PolitiFact ruled Dr. Rohack’s statement, “Pregnant women trying to buy health insurance on their own are barred from maternity coverage because they have a “pre-existing condition.” to be TRUE.