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Adjunct Political Professor Dennis Robbins Explores Ethics in Healthcare Reform

More than three decades of tourniquets and temporary fixes have eroded our confidence in the American health care system by failing to remedy the ills, woes and challenges of providing care to millions of people with varying degrees of health insurance coverage.

Dennis Robbins, adjunct professor of American politics at the School of Public Policy (SPP), will discuss how constructive change can create a plan that Americans feel secure with in a lecture titled, "The Ethical Substrate of an Obama-inspired Health Reform." The lecture begins at 12:10 p.m. on Thursday, Mar. 26, in room 175 at SPP on the Drescher Graduate Campus. 

Robbins currently teaches the health policy class at SPP. His lecture will explore how a commitment by President Barack Obama to improve health care delivery might make a difference in the years to come. 

"Absent from the reform debate has been attention to identifying the normative ethical substrate or context to underpin and justify any mandate for change," says Robbins. He will discuss options to provide better health care choices by expanding coverage beyond traditional commercial insurance, as well as, "rethinking how to do the right thing for the right reason at the right time."

"Whether the issue is a stronger focus on prevention, early detection, or coordination of care with extensive Health care information technology (HIT)," he says, "the goal must be to create a plan of we can be proud and feel safe and secure."

For more information about Dennis Robbins' lecture, contact the School of Public Policy at (310) 506-7490.