Santa Clara University

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President's Speaker Series

The third year of the Speaker Series features Michael Eric Dyson, Lisa Sowle Cahill '70, E.J. Dionne Jr., and Avraham Burg, who will discuss issues of religion and politics.

Santa Clara Lecture Series

The Santa Clara Lecture Series is sponsored by the Bannan Institute, which is committed to examining Catholic identity and Jesuit character.

The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics sponsors the Ethics at Noon lecture series. These lunch-hour programs provide a forum for SCU faculty members and other experts to explore ethical issues in many fields.

de Saisset Museum

The museum offers several lectures and programs based on current exhibitions.

Health Care Reform and Social Justice

Nov 5, 2009

5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Location

Arts & Sciences Building, The Wiegand Center

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Lecture

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

A Talk by

Bruce Bodaken, chairman, president and CEO, Blue Shield of California

Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Fall 2009

Meet the speaker reception, Arts & Sciences Foyer 5-5:30 p.m.

Passionate about Blue Shield’s not-for-profit mission, Bruce Bodaken, in 2002, became the first health plan CEO to offer a specific proposal to cover the uninsured. He will discuss his proposal for universal coverage based on shared responsibility, a plan that is similar to coverage expansion legislation enacted in Massachusetts in 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2007 proposal, and President Obama’s health reform plan.

A native of Iowa, Bodaken doesn’t fit the typical profile of a health plan CEO. He earned a masters degree and taught philosophy at the college level before embarking on a career in health care.

Blue Shield is a 3.4 million member not-for-profit health plan that serves the commercial, individual and government markets in California.

More Information

David DeCosse

408-554-5715

ddecosse@scu.edu