Itâs that time of year again. Our TVs are full of corporate ads for Medicare Advantage. They promise âzero premiums,â âhearing and vision,â âfree dental,â and more. You or your parents are about to make a major decision, one that will impact your personal health and finances for years to come. We at Consumers Council have nothing to sell you, so we can help you look behind the ads and biased brokers to really understand your decision.
Event Details
Date and Time: September 16, 2024 at 7:00pm
Location: Zoom — All registrants will receive a Zoom link following registration for this event.
Cost: There is no charge for this event.
About the presenter:
Ed Weisbart, MD, is vice-president of Consumers Council of Missouri, a non-profit organization that works to build a more inclusive and equitable community through advocacy, coalition building, collaboration, and community education.
He is also the national board secretary and MO chapter chair of Physicians for a National Health Program, a non-profit non-partisan organization of more than 25,000 physicians and other healthcare advocates in support of a publicly financed, non-profit single-payer national health insurance program that would fully cover medical care for all Americans.
Dr. Weisbart received his medical degree at the University of Illinois in Chicago in 1979, and completed his family medicine residency and a fellowship in family medicine education at Michigan State University in 1982. After practicing family medicine for 20 years at Rush Medical Center in Chicago, he moved to St. Louis in 2003 to serve as chief medical officer of Express Scripts until retiring in 2010. He volunteered as an assistant professor of clinical medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, MO from 2004 until retiring clinically in 2021.
