The Texas Plan is a new model of universal healthcare that provides for better health outcomes and is fiscally sustainable for individuals and government.
This presentation will examine our current healthcare system and then outline the features of the new model that have the potential for keeping individuals healthy and lowering the overall spending on healthcare in Texas and the United States.
About our Speaker:
Bob Kamm is an attorney, mediator and former lobbyist with more than 40 years’ experience in Texas legislative, political, and legal matters. He received his B.A. in political science from LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York and his law degree from the University of Buffalo School of Law.
Kamm served six years on staff in the Texas Senate, most notably as General Counsel to the Texas Senate Economic Development Committee. As General Counsel, he served as chief advisor to the Committee Chairman.
After leaving his post in the Texas Senate, Kamm served as General Counsel and Sr. Vice-President-Government Affairs to the Texas Association of Business & Chambers of Commerce, a statewide organization representing more than 120,000 employers across the state of Texas.
Prior to his position in the Texas Senate, Kamm spent eight years in private law practice as a commercial/business litigator. In 1990, Kamm was a candidate for the District 48 Texas House of Representatives seat in Travis County.
Currently, Kamm provides pro bono legal services, serves as a volunteer mediator, and facilitates a group of healthcare professionals and policy makers committed to developing a bipartisan plan for universal healthcare.
Two days a week, Kamm sings at Austin nursing and memory care homes, crooning songs from the Great American Songbook and other standards.
Kamm is married to Kelly Leahy Kamm, a Distinguished Senior Lecturer in finance at the McCombs School of Business. They have two children, Christian and Megan, who are pursuing their early careers after obtaining graduate degrees from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and UMass Amherst, respectively.
