RALEIGH — Representatives from a national think tank that favors limited government and a North Carolina anti-poverty group will debate health-care reform at a public forum at Campbell Law School on Wednesday.

Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute in Washington and Adam Searing of the N.C. Justice Center will debate reform proposals now in Congress. Democrats and Republicans have filed a series of bills aimed at increasing the number of people who are covered by health insurance.

The debate will take place in the Campbell Law Auditorium, room 105, at 225 Hillsborough St. in downtown Raleigh. The event's sponsor, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, will provide lunch at 11:45 a.m.; the debate is scheduled for noon.