Dr. George Flinn, owner and president of Flinn Clinics, announced on Friday that he will be hosting a health care town hall in Jackson,Tennessee on October 30.
The event will be held at 6 p.m. in Jackson at the Old Country Store, and will be moderated by local radio personality Steve Bowers, host of the “Blue Suede Forever” program on 103.7 WDXI-FM in Jackson.
Flinn will be joined by three other local physicians on an expert panel: Dr. Lisa Piercey, Executive Vice President of West Tennessee Healthcare, Dr. Kumar Yogesh, a pulmonologist from Dresden, and Professor Hunter Baker from Union University in Jackson.
“Congress has had the tools they need to reform healthcare for nearly a year now,” Flinn said in a statement.
“Yet, they’ve done nothing to provide relief to the tens of millions of patients, small businesses and healthcare
providers across the country that have been crushed by Obamacare,” he noted.
The statement added:
In order to expand the opportunity for the public to share their voice, Dr. Flinn has established a website where he is encouraging everyone to learn about healthcare reform and leave feedback.
The website, www.trackingourcongress.com, contains videos, surveys and a phone number for a healthcare hotline.
The hotline can be used for people wanting to leave a voice message with their ideas for healthcare reform or their experiences in the current healthcare system.
There is no charge to the public to attend the October 30 event in Jackson.
Flinn narrowly lost the 2016 Republican primary in the Tennessee 8th Congressional District to Rep. David Kustoff (R-TN-08). Kustoff finished in first place among twelve candidates with 27 percent of the vote. Flinn finished in second place with 23 percent of the vote.
Kustoff went on to easily win the November 2016 general election.
Kustoff has recently come under criticism for failing to provide assistance to Dr. Bryan Merrick, the West Tennessee family doctor who resides in his district whose Medicare billing privileges have been revoked by Washington bureaucrats over $670 in clerical billing errors.
Flinn ran for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2014, and received 5 percent of the vote in the August 2014 primary, finished third behind Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), who won with 49 percent of the vote, and State Rep. Joe Carr (R-Lascassas), who finished in second place with 40 percent of the vote.
