1994 Popcorn Forum program

1 Welcome to the 24th Annual

POPCORN FORUM S YMPOSIUM

&

24th Annual Popcorn Forum Symposium at North Idaho College

.DAY1 Monday, April 11, 1994

10:00 a.m.

Boswell Hall Auditorium

CONVOCATION SERIES

N ATIONAL H EALTH C ARE: T HE C LINTON A DMINISTRATION'S P LAN

The North Idaho College Popcorn Forum and Convocation Series have presented forums aod symposia on a broad range of issues and problems for nearly a quarter of a century. The series provides a plalfonn for the free expression of a wide range of viewpoints.

This year's !Opie "Universal Health Coverage in the United States: Can We Do ll?" will provide an opportunity to examine and discuss the various health care plans being considered in the United States Congress as well as around the United States. The week-long symposium will also address the impact of violence in America on health care cos~ the question of who gets what type of health care, aad finally a discussion of self-health management for the 1\venty-First Century.

Uni\lersal Health Co\lerage in the United !itates: Can We Do It?

ANO A LTERNATIVE P LANS

Welcome Dr. C. Robert Bennett, President NI C Christa Manis, President of Associated Students Introduction of Spea.lccr: Carla Austin, Vice.Chair NIC Human

Equality Club Speaker. LARRY CRAIG (R) Idaho U.S. Senaior (via satellite) Senator Craig was born at Council, Idaho, grad~••d from the Universi1y of Idaho with a B.A. in Political Science and Agricultural EconomiC$ in 1969, and did graduate study in Economics and Politics of Developiog Countrie& at George Wa.,hiogton Uni,-ersity.. He was elected to the Idaho State Senate in 1974 and was rc-•lected in I 976 and 1978. Craig was elected U.S. Repre&enmive from Idaho's Pim Congrcs• siooal District in I980and re-elected in 1982. 1984, 1986 and 1988. Upon the retirement of U.S. Senator Jame& McClure in 1990, Larry Cnig was elected to the U.S. Senate. He served a term on the National Republican Congressional Ca.-.,aign Corrunittce.

The week will afford the participants the oppot1unity to meet and bear some of tbe preeminent authorities in tbe field of health care issues and coverage.

The symposium is free and open lO the public.

•DAY 1 cont.

Monday, April 11, 1994

10:00a.m.

Boswell Hall Auditorium Speaker: LARRY LAROCCO (D) Idaho U.S. Representative. 1st District (via sateUite) Congressman LaRocco was first elected 10 l),c United Statu House from Idaho'• Fim Congres.rional District in 1990and re-elected in 1992. LaRocco recei,-ed his bachelor's degree from the Univenitr of Ponland and his master's deg,u from theScbool of Public Communications at Boston University.

He rlirl pn.d·e:~uate work at John Hopkins a.od Stanfocd

universitic.s. For six years Congrc.uma.n La.Rocco was Idaho Field Director for the late Senator Frank Church. La Rocco served in the U.S. Army from 1969-1972, auairung the rank of Captain in miliwy intelligence.

R£5PONSE PANEL

Bonner

Room,

I :00-2:30 p.m.

Modera t or Maxine Marlin

1993-94 P OPCORN F ORUM

Speaker: DIRK KEMPTIIORNE (R) Idaho U.S. Scnaior (via satellite)

C OMMITTEE

Carla Austin Mar gan! F•djo RI.hard S n yder Tony Stewart, C h ai r Calli• Wea th erf or d

1993-94

C ONVOCATIONS C OMMITTEE

Walt Carlson Pa l Camie Mlchde Jerd • Ila Jones, Chair Max ine Martin Jusica Waller Jo Ann• Zim merman

April 11-15, 1994

Scna1or Kcmpthorne was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992.

Prior lo hos election to the Senate, Kempthornc served seven years os Mayor of Boise. He was fir.1t elected in 1985, and re· elected wi~Jout opposition in 1989. Before his election as Boise's 43rd mayo<, Dirk ~mpthorne was the Idaho Public Affairs Manager for the FMC Corporation. He served as Campaign Manager for Phil Ba11·s 1982 gubernatorial campaign, Executive Viec-Pr<-Sident of the Idaho Home Builders Association and Executive Assistant to the Director of the Idaho Otpattmcnl of Lands. In 1988 he was chosen by the Idaho Statt.Smen as "Citfaen of the Year." Kempthorne is a 1975 gn.duote of the Uruversity of Idaho, where he was elected Studen1 Body President llis junior yeu

NICNuning O.parune111

Bob Wachter Clloirlllllll ood CEO, Uniud '4~ Stand Amtrico,/daho, Inc.

John Nug•nt Director. 11Ds1>1te or North Idaho

Mama Bateman

Director er On«>!OII)' Services.

Nonh Idaho Clllccr ~nter

Manhall Th ompson Owner. Comnwrc.ial Prilt1in1 Randall Brink Bu11nwtm.n and Author

Debra Cordon Dtrce1or, Arca Agency on Aging

Co-Sponsored by: NIC Convocations Series Associated Students of North Idaho College

1 .DAY 2:

• DAY 3:

• DAY 4:

.DAY 5:

Tuesday, April 12, 1994

Wednesday, Aprll 13, 1994 9:00-11 :00 a.m. Bonner Room, SUB "Heahh Care Awareness Clinic" Tho NIC Nursing 0.panmcot will concluct a two hour he.W. ~linic that will provide infonnation on preventing many ,llnesses as well as f,ee blood prcsruro checks.

Thursday, April 14, 1994 9:00 a.m.

Boswell Hall Auditorium

Friday, April 15, 1994 9:00 a.m.

Boswell Hall Auditorium

11:00a.m.

Boswell Hall Aud~orium H EALTH C ARE

& C OVERAGE:

PR IVATE S PONSORE D PR OGRAMS VS. G OVERNMENT SPONSORED PROGRAMS

Introduction of Speaker Jeff Jeske. NIC Student Speaker. DENNIS E. WHEELER Chairman, Presideni and CEO Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation Mr. Wheeler was born and raiJed in Nonh Idaho. He graduated from the University or Idaho and holds degrees in business and law. Currenlly the Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Coeur d'Alene Minu Corporotioa, Mr. Wheeler is also on the Board of Directors for Siena Pacific Resource.t. lie i• the f'R-'ident of the Silver Institute. an ln1eruatiooal orgaruwioo of miners, relineu 1 fabricalors and manufac1urcrs and is currently the Ch.ailllWl or the Western Board of Governors of the American Mining Congress. Mr. Wheeler u a Oir«cor for the Cenier for Democracy. · Washiog1on, D.C. The Cen1er is a noo-proli1, non-partisan foundation which assist., the democratic process and free market instiuwons ,n coonlries sctking 1oestab1ilh. or further, representative governmenL He serves on the board of the Wildlife Habita1 Enhancement Council, a national nonprofit organiution which works with industty 10 develop animal habitau on reclaimed land. He is the 1994 recipient of the American lnsti1u1e of Mining, Metallurgical, and Peuoleum Engineers' Environmcnial Cooservation Distin· guished Service Award. In Coeur d'Alene he;. the fouoder and director of Jobs Plus, a community developmenl orgllliwioo. Mr. Wheeler is the rec1pien1 of lho "Significant Sig" award of Sigma Chi Fra1erni1y.

11:00a.m.

H EALTH CARE C osr s: M usT W E C Hoose W HO G ETS M EDICAL T REAlMENT?

Boswell Hall Auditorium THE IMPACT OF V IOLENCE

ON

HEALTH CARE IN A MERICA

Introduction of Speaker. Margord °Fcdj•, NIC Cou.nselo Speaker. DR. ROLAND D. M AJURO Director, Harborview Anger Management Centtr

Dr. Roland D. Maiuro ,s an Associate ProfesS<r in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Uruvmi1y of Washingtoo School of Medicine. He was a Henry Rutgers Fdlow Ill Ru1gers Univers.ity and he earned hi doctcnl degree io clinical psychology at Washington Universi1y in St. Louis. He did post•doctoral studies 111 the Unive1>ity of Wa.,hington School of Medicine.

Dr. Maiuro has ~arned worldwide stature as ao expen oo a.ssessmenl and l!catment of anger problems and violent behavior, stress and coping, and community mental health. lo May of tha year, Maiuro will be one o( only 1wo United Staie, representatives 11 thc lntttn.ttic>n•I Confercncec>n Violence in Rome, haly.

Dr. Maiuro's work as founder and director or the angtrm.anagement program at the Universi1y of Washing1on bu become a model for the United States. Mafo,o serves a, the Chief Edi1or of th,, Jounu,/ of Violtnce and Vier/ms.

Dr. Maiuro's cenler ha.t indicated that ooe of the price tags for violence in America is a rise in health care costs. Rlr i11$1ancc, tho Harborview Ccnler reported that the average cos for a gunshOI wound rn Scaule is S 17,000.

S ELF-HEALTH M ANAGEMENT: T IPS FOR THE T WENTY-F IRST C ENTURY

Introduction of Speaker. Callie Wcalbcrford, NIC Pbi Theta Kappa

Introduction of Speaker: Ila Jones Chair NIC Convocations Committee

Speaker. Or. JAMES M. NANIA. M.D.. Medical Director of Dcpanment of Emergency at Deaconess Medical Center

Speaker. OR. PAUL SALTMAN. Biologis~ Author, Lecturer, Researcher and Administrator Dr. Paul Saltman ha.t been• professor of Biology a1 the Universl1y o! Calif«nla, San Diego slncc 1967. Ho has also served as Provost of Revelle College IS well as Vice-

Dr. James Narua serves as chair of the Washington Stale Governor'• Advisory Commiuec on Tiauma. He wu appoin1ed by Conner Governor Booth Gardner ._nd rcappoin1ed

by Governor Mlkc Lowry. N•ru• is the medical advuor Lo the Ufebird Nr T ranspart and Medical Program Director to 1.he Spokane County Emergency Medical Service$. lie iJ also chair of 1he Washington St.lie EMS and T111uma Care Steering Commiuee. Dr. Nania holds a B.S. in Zoology from the Un.iveuity of W',sconsio (Madison). an M D. degree from the Loyola S1ritch School or Medicine {llhnou), an lntcrnal Medicine Internship from St. Franci• Hospi1al (Evanston, lllinoi•) and Emergency Medicine Residency from Lutheran Gcoeral Hospilal (Park Ridge, Illinois).

Rf.sPONSE P ANEi. Bonner

Room,

1:00-2:30

p.m.

Mo d era t o r Margi• Hill NIC Nunan& 0.part.m<nt

Chancellor for Acadenuc Affairs. For fourteen years he WIS a member of the facuhy of the University of Soul!1crn California m the School of Medicine. Saltman holds • 8 .S. degree in Chemis1ry and a Ph.D. degree in Biochemutry from California Institute of Tedtnology.

Dr. Saltman did post•gradua1e work in Biochemis1ry at the College de France in Paru. He served u a professor at tho of Copenhagen and at Murdoch Universi1y in

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Salunan has done a large number of radio and television progran1., including a th111een half-hour series called "Pauerns of Life" for Nationill Educational Television and • recen1 sixpart seacs for the Public Broadcas1ing System. He ,s the au1hor of TM California Nutrition Book. He also •uthored Th" New NutriJion, • colleruon of nicdical and ,cientific nulrition lopics.

Dr. Paul Saltman has served on many national and ml<rnauonal edi1orial boards. He has been a consul1an110 the National lnsututes or Health, th,, Academy of Scicncu, and N•tional Science Foundation. He received the Rese11ch Career De\ltloprnent Award from ll1e Nauonal lnslltules or Health.

Jot Morris

RE.ffi>NSE PANEL

C£0. XootcnJII Medical Ccn«t

RE.ffi>NSE PANEl, Bonner Room,

1:00-2:3 0 p.m.

Moderator Dan Wiberg 8UJi0"5n'l&D

D•nnis Wb••l• r CEO Coeur d'AJ•n• Minea Norm Gissel Alloniey

Sandy Mlllll ola E.ecutive Director, Lake Clly lleallh Care Or. Jack lliggs, M.O. Non11 Idaho IIM!edille Cwe Lorr y Bolmonl Director. Panhandle Heallh OIJuict

Rf.sPONSE P ANEL

Dr. E.R. W. Fox , M. D.

Bonn er Room, 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Dtanis Hagur Ilarri1 Dean Insurance Company

Moderat or Stnator Mary Lou R•td Dt. Roland Maiuro Oircdor lbrborvitw Anger Managtmenl Ccn«r Star E ulhtn• Dir«wr. Coeur d'Alene Womooi Ceola'

Pat Kukuruza, I<ootenai County Pn>sccui..-, om~ (Victim AalsUnec Advocate)

Ktn Howard FolT!\CI Prcoidenl Idaho Trial Lawycn Aaotlation Dr. Rogtr Evans Director o! EmctJenc:y Scr•i«-, Kno<enai Modk•I Center

Bonner Room,

Pat rlda

Royce

CasoManagemcnl Co«di...,,,ArcaAgtncy on Aging

p.m.

Mod er ato r Dr. K•n Wrigh t

Dr. James 1\1. Nania Director of Emcrg,nc:y o.p:wn,n1 Oeaconw Medical Center

1 :00-2:30

1'1C Faculty

Dr.

Roger

Ehlert,

Ph.D.

Plydlologut

Dr. Cary Bartoo Phys,Cll Therapist

Linda

Slon•

D,cucian, Koolenli Medical Center

Sally Uowell Oietlci>n. Kootenai Medical Ccn«t