Agency: Hands On Central Texas

Description:

United Way Capital Area, KLRU-TV, Austin PBS and Alamo Drafthouse invite you to a special screening and discussion on the health care crisis.

Meet Hector Cardenas. He worked his whole life. Then he lost his job, his health insurance … and his infected foot to diabetes. Now he lives in a hotel and struggles to pay the medical bills.

Join us for a special screening of Critical Condition, which captures the harrowing struggles of critically ill Americans who discover that being uninsured can cost them their jobs, health, home, savings, even their lives.

Hector’s story is one that many Latinos know very well. Stay after the screening to hear panelists discuss the film and the issues Hispanics and other Americans without health insurance live with every day.

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 Thursday, March 25, 2010

 6:30-8:30pm

 Alamo Drafthouse South

 1120 South Lamar, Austin, TX

 *Food & beverages available for purchase

After the screening, stay to hear panelists discuss key questions related to living without health insurance and health issues such as diabetes. Lend your perspective as we talk about how living without health insurance impacts Latinos and all communities.

Moderated by Dr. Jacqueline Angel

Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology

LBJ School of Public Affairs - University of Texas

Author, research and expertise in family, health, aging and Latinos

Featured panlists include Jose Camacho, Excecutive Director/Legal Counsel at Texas Association of Community Health Centers and Lil Almonte, Director of Outreach at El Buen Samaritano.

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Impact Areas: Health & Wellness, Citizen Action/Academy: Issue Education, Citizen Action/Academy

Interests: The interests recommended for this course are:
Civic & Community, Health & Wellness

Skills: There are no skills specified for this course.