Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  > Inside Columbia  GW's Center on Human Rights Director, Kathryn Nash, discusses her center's plans for the semester at GW's launch event Announcements National Expo: July 11th Hyde Park Summit: August 14-17 Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "The giving of love is an education in itself." — Eleanor Roosevelt    Center on Health Issues > Roosevelt Home > Columbia > Health     Welcome to the Center on Health Issues, everybody. This center seeks to point out the problems and best solutions to our crises in the American medical care and health insurance systems. Issues we will tackle over the 2007-2008 school year include: Different versions of universal health care for the U.S. Inequalities in access to medical care in different socioeconomic and racial groups. Affirmative action as a tool to recruit doctors to practice in underserved rural and inner-city communities. Reforming drug laws and penalties from the legal and medical perspectives.     In the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt, who understood that we need "freedom from want" and "freedom from fear," this center maintains the principle that reasonable health care is a right that should be guaranteed to all, regardless of circumstance. Currently, even families with insurance fear outrageous medical costs for critical procedures and children go without primary care for economic reasons. Reforming our health care system is one of the simplest and quickest ways to simultaneously save thousands of lives and billions of dollars.     So be part of the movement and join the Center on Health Issues. It's our role to make sure the next health care reform is the best one possible. -Jake Grumbach, Chair of the Center on Health Issues jmg2170@columbia.edu Group members: Jake M Grumbach   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 2100 M St NW Suite 610 / Washington, DC 20037 || (202) 833-1359