Paul Starr is co-Founder of The American Prospect, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, author of Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health-Care Reform (2013) as well as the Pulitzer Prize winning: The Social Transformation of American Medicine (1982). He served as a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton on healthcare policy. His talk, "America's Peculiar Struggle over Health Care, Then and Now" leads off a symposium on “Healthcare Rights and Healthcare Reform from Medicare to the Affordable Care Act,” featuring reports from the front lines of state and local, official and grassroots efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act (ACA). 

Symposium Participants

Susan Klein-Rothschild, Deputy Director of Santa Barbara County Health's community health division. Klein-Rothschild will speak about what the ACA means to a local government organization and a Federally Qualified Health Care Center (FQHC). 

Mario Chavez is the Community Relations Director of St. John's Well Family and Child Center, a FQHC that has long roots reaching back to healthcare reform in the 1960s. Chavez will reflect on the implementation of the ACA looking at St. John's Well Family's longstanding commitment to a universal right to affordable healthcare provided by people with living-wage jobs.

Starr's latest book, Remedy and Reaction, will be availble for purchase courtesy of Granada Books.