APPNA N E W S L E T T E R A quarterly publication of the Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America Volume 19, Number 2 Fall 2009 What’s Inside ... San Francisco Meeting a huge success! Health Reform incomplete without any Tort Reform – Editorial Winter Meeting in Karachi, December 29-31, 2009 NiagarSeptembera Falls 25-27, 2009 Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America APPNA N E W S L E T T E R A quarterly publication of the Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America Volume 19, Number 2 Fall 2009 6414 S. Cass Avenue, Westmont, IL 60559 • Phone 630-968-8585 • Fax 630-968-8677 • www.appna.org •
[email protected] Editorial APPNA Newsletter Volume 19, Number 2 Publisher: APPNA Health Care Reform President: Syed Samad, MD Zia Moiz Ahmad, MD President Elect: Zeela Munir, MD Secretary: Manzoor ariq, MD reasurer: Saima Zaar t is how one views access to health care that de- Immediate Past President: fines how one approaches the debate over health Mahmood Alam I care reorm. Is access to basic health care a right or Publication Committee: a privilege? Is this a moral issue or a purely financial Chair: S. ariq Shahab, MD problem? Is this what defines our national charac- Cochair: Jamil Farooqui, MD ter or is it simply a question o what we can afford? Editor: Zia M Ahmad, MD Whereas there are credible and reasonable points to Urdu Editor: Salman Zaar, MD be made or both the positions, we strongly eel that Designed & Printed by access to basic health care is a right o citizenship.