Reforming the way health care is paid for and delivered in the United States is serious business. It deserves an equally serious discussion rising above partisanship and hot air.
Join Health Affairs, the nation's leading health policy journal, for a special conference on Fact vs. Fiction: Key Issues in Health Reform.
WHEN: Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
WHERE: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
RSVP: Please RSVP for this event online. There will be a call-in number for those who cannot attend in person. If you wish to receive the dial-in number, please contact Meghan Hanrahan at Meghan.Hanrahan@burnesscommunications.com.
LIVE TWEETING: This event will be live tweeted using #healthreform
TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED:
- What exactly is the U.S. government's role in health care and how might it change under health reform?
- What are the implications of slowing the rate of growth in Medicare spending and what would the impact be on beneficiaries?
- End of Life Health Care: How the issues really look to the people and providers who live it.
SPEAKERS TO INCLUDE:
- Welcoming remarks by telephone from former Surgeons General C. Everett Koop and Richard Carmona
- Len Nichols, Director, Health Policy Program, New America Foundation
- Gail Wilensky, Senior Fellow, Project HOPE and former head of HCFA
- C. Eugene Steuerle, Vice President, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
- Christine Cassell, MD, President, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Diane E. Meier, MD, Director, Center to Advance Palliative Care, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Jerald Winakur, MD, Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; Noted Author of "What Are We Going To Do With Dad," Health Affairs essay, and Memory lessons: A Doctor's Story (Hyperion Books)