BALCONY Co-Sponsors Rochester Health Care Forum Set for April 4th.

BALCONY, the Business and Labor Coalition of New York, is co-sponsoring with MANY and the American Cancer Society a business and labor roundtable discussion on health care in the workforce and on how the current health insurance coverage might be changed to include all New Yorkers. The forum will take place on April 4, 2008 from 8 to 11 A.M. at the Rochester Institute of Technology and will feature business and labor leaders from the upstate communities surrounding Rochester, Syracuse, and Buffalo. Among the forum topics that will be discussed are the impact of high health care costs and uninsured rates on area business and labor and an evaluation of the current health care reform proposals that New York State is considering. The forum is being organized by Mainstream New York, and the other co-sponsors along with BALCONY are the American Cancer Society, the National Federation of International Business, the New York State United Teachers, and the Rochester Business Alliance.

Contact Bill Bastuk of Mainstream New York for further details. His phone is (585) 503-6826 and his e-mail address is wbastuk@rochester.rr.com.