Health Affairs is holding this special conference/briefing to look at the government's role in health reform, implications of slowing the rate of growth in Medicare spending, end of life care and more. Speakers will include former Surgeons General C. Everett Koop and Richard Carmona, Len Nichols of the New America Foundation, Gail Wilensky of Project HOPE, C. Eugene Steuerle of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Christine Cassell, M.D., of the American Board of Internal Medicine, Diane E. Meier, M.D., of the Center to Advance Palliative Care at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Jerald Winakur, M.D., of the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

There will be a call-in number for those who cannot attend in person.