Forum set Thursday on reforming health care

A free public forum on reforming health care in California will be held Thursday at 7 p.m. in Mountain View’s City Hall, 500 Castro St.

Local health care experts and advocates for a new “single-payer” system for the state will discuss accessibility problems of today’s health care and a “Medicare-type” plan designed to make health care more accessible.

The forum is sponsored by a group called Health Care for All, which is lobbying state officials to pass legislation creating a new Medicare-type system in which employees and employers would pay into a state-run system. Co-sponsors include the Santa Clara Council Single Payer Coalition and the Peninsula Democratic Coalition.

Anyone in the Mighty Corrente Building from Mountain View?