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Middletown Rotary Club

Merry-Go-Round

June 11, 2013 

The meeting began at 12:15 PM with reflections shared by Patti Vasia.

Visiting Rotarian:

Fred Hansen, East Hampton

Guests:

Florecia Allex (guest of Paul Hughes), Matt Falt (guest of Laura Falt), Alice Straight and speaker Jill Zorn from the Universal Health Care Foundation.

Cards:

Howard Shakner (high) and Ken Vaughan (low), both donated winnings to Amber Alert.

No King of Clubs winners.

Announcements:

Board Meeting tonight at 5:30 at Young's Printing

Middletown Historical Society fundraiser on 6/29, $75 tickets, contact Pat Tully

Dan Litwin has very cool Middletown Rotary hats for sale, $12

BRAYCE (Brazilian youth exchange program) fundraiser on the CT River 6/22, contact Cheryl for details

Happy Dollars: 

Jeff Walter; forgetfulness

Laura Falt; son's band performance, other son's graduation from freshman year

Art Meyers; welcome back Alice, wedding anniversary

Dan Litwin; Laura hired daughter

Pat Gomola; great make up opportunity in East Hampton at their race car event

Cathy Stebbins; daughter graduated from IDS

Ken Vaughan; welcome Alice, 60 new Amber Alert, recent hike, Dan's help with dictionary project

Trish Witzky-Lambert; Patti has raised over $1,000 for raffle

Cheryl Duey; welcome Alice, Chris Soulias does great job with inductions

Mario Mazzotta; son's internship, daughter's graduation, sister's surprise visit

Lisa Santangelo; missed meetings, Russell Library book sale

Lois Muraro; wonderful tall ships cruise in NYC harbor with husband, 100th unit of blood

Helene Vartelas; daughter's first week of work

Sue Murphy; for guest(s) speaker

Patti Vassia; new condo coming along, raffle update, need help with reflections

Pat Tully; (sorry, I missed it)

Laura Pederson; missed meetings, St Vincent's Soup Kitchen improvements,

Alice Straight; nice to be back (joined us 10 years ago)

Paul Hughes; guest Florecia Allex

Speaker:

Jill Zorn, Senior Project Officer, Universal Health Care Foundation - "Understanding the Affordable Health Care Act".

In 2006, the focus on health care reform was state by state. President Obama was the first president to successfully get a federal bill passed. There was a lot of partisan "noise". US health care is the most expensive in the world but not the best quality.

Need for a system that is fair and affordable. Issues discussed included higher cost of health insurance for women, pre-existing conditions, coverage for children on parents plan to age of 26, full coverage of preventative health care, reducing cost of using emergency rooms as routine care facilities, Medicare, small business impacts, use of brokers. Beginning October, 2013, insurance options will be offered through Access Health CT. New insurance choices will be available 2014. For more information, visit www.universalhealtct.org. 

The meeting concluded at 1:30 with the Four Way Test.

Respectfully submitted, 

Cheryl Duey