Retired Fredericksburg physician Jay Brock will speak to the Lake of the Woods Democratic Club Sept. 11 on the topic “Single-Payer Medicare for All? Liberal? Conservative? Actually It’s Both.”
“Our current multiple payer system of health insurance has failed to solve the twin problems of lowering costs and covering everyone,” Brock said. “We need to change how we fund and pay for our care — without changing our medical delivery system.”
He said he will explain how a single-payer insurance system will cover everyone as it controls medical costs with principles that will appeal to both liberals and conservatives.
The program will take place at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 11 in Classroom 2 of the LOW Community Center. Everyone is welcome without regard to political affiliation.
Brock, a native New Yorker, is past president of the Fredericksburg Area Medical Society and former chairman of the Department of Family Practice at Mary Washington Hospital.
He attended medical school at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he also completed a residency in family practice. He joined the medical faculty at McGill, first as an instructor, and then as a full-time assistant professor of family practice.
He retired from active medical practice in 2014.