The Jackson County Republican Organization will hold another Orville Coward Forum on health care on Monday, Aug. 17, at 7 p.m. at the group’s headquarters, 482 West Main Street in downtown Sylva. The speaker will be Dr. Robert Peterson, medical director of Crescent Preferred Provider Organization, Inc., a health care provider organization based in Asheville, N.C. He has been instrumental in making Crescent PPO a successful alternative to other similar organizations who provide health care management services for businesses and other organizations in the western North Carolina area.

As major changes to the health care system in the U.S. are about to be made there are multiple questions to be asked and answered.

It is claimed that the health care system is broken and that we spend more money per capita on health care in the U.S. than almost any country in the world. What lies behind that statistic? Are their really problems with the healthcare system or are there other reasons for this claim? Is universal government healthcare insurance the best answer? These will be some of the questions addressed at the August forum. All interested communit y residents are invited to attend.

For additional information, call (828)586-3577 or Republican Headquarters at (828)586-9895.