Mid-valley reform advocates will present a town hall on Tuesday outlining the four major health care proposals coming up for consideration in Congress.

Titled "What's Washington Doing About Health Care Reform?," the event is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 N.W. Monroe Ave.

Presentations will be made by local physicians Paul Hochfeld, James Van Olst and Chinh Le and Oregon State University professor Chunhuei Chi.

Former state Sen. Cliff Trow will moderate the discussion, which will include presentations on each of four major reform plans:

• The Obama Plan. Backed by the president, this plan would build on the current system of employer-provided coverage from private insurance carriers, using tax breaks and mandates to move toward universal coverage.

• The Wyden Plan. Oregon's senior senator is promoting something called Healthy Americans Private Insurance. People who are neither elderly nor disabled would be required to purchase so-called "HAPI plans," with subsidies available for low-income citizens.

• The Stark Plan. California Rep. Pete Stark is backing a proposal called AmeriCare that would expand Medicare to cover just about all Americans but would leave private insurance and employer-provided coverage in place.

• The Conyers Plan. Michigan Rep. John Conyers introduced HR 676, known as the United State National Health Insurance Act. It's a single-payer plan that would use payroll and income tax money to finance a system of defined-benefit coverage that would be open to all Americans.

The town hall is sponsored by the Oregon chapter of Physicians for a National Health Care Program, Mid-Valley Health Care Advocates, the Albany and Corvallis chapters of the Archimedes Movement, the League of Women Voters of Corvallis and the American Association of University Women.