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Today's Topics In Health Disparities - State Initiatives to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
5/14/2008
This Kaiser Family Foundation webcast takes a closer look at current state-based efforts to improve access to care and outcomes for minority populations.
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Whatever Happened to Medicare Reform?
5/15/2008
The Cato Institute sponsors this event with panelists discussing Medicare reform efforts.
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Viewpoints: The Health Care Debate
5/14/2008
This new series, Viewpoints: The Health Care Debate, features interviews with leaders of organizations representing health care providers, insurers, policymakers, employers, labor unions and consumers sharing their views on shortcomings in the nation's health care system and how it could be improved.
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Health Reform and the 2008 Election: Opportunities and Pitfalls
5/13/2008
Health Affairs sponsors this panel with representatives from all three presidential campaigns public opinion experts to discuss the role of health reform in the 2008 election. The briefing highlights the May/June issue of Health Affairs, which focuses on health reform.
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Health on the Hill from kaisernetwork.org and CQ
5/12/2008
Mary Agnes Carey, associate editor, CQ HealthBeat, looks at recent activity on the Hill -- part of a weekly series of audio reports for HealthCast.
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Preventing HIV/AIDS in the United States: A Focus on CDC's HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs
5/12/2008
The briefing, sponsored by the AIDS Institute, examines the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States. Speakers also address how the federal government, primarily through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, works to prevent HIV infection and how it can be improved.
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities: States and Feds to the Rescue?
5/12/2008
This event, sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Commonwealth Fund examines actions state and federal policy makers can take to help reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health.
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Employer Health Costs in a Global Economy
5/9/2008
The New America Foundation Health Policy Program hosts this meeting to discuss the intersection of health care and the economy and examine its implications for a national conversation about comprehensive health care reform.
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From the Bookshelves: "Hospital"
5/7/2008
Julie Salamon discusses her new book "Hospital," which takes readers through a year in the life of a major urban hospital and examines how modern medicine works through the experiences of administrators, doctors, community leaders and patients.
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Open Forum III: Key Issues in TB Drug Development
5/5/2008
This two-day forum, hosted by the TB Alliance, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Treatment Action Group and the Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New Drugs, is the second in a series of meetings addressing key issues in tuberculosis (TB) drug development.
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Ask the Experts: A Public Plan Option Under Health Reform
5/1/2008
A number of proposals to expand health insurance coverage -- including those put forward by leading Democratic candidates for President -- would allow people to enroll in a publicly-sponsored health plan, potentially competing side-by-side with private insurance plans. This Ask the Experts webcast examines this idea, looking at such questions as: Is Medicare a model for such a plan? What gaps in the current insurance system would it address? Is it an appropriate role for government? How would it affect health care costs and spending? Could it, in effect, lead to a single payer system?
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McCain Discusses Health Care During "Call to Action Tour" Town Hall
4/30/2008
This event features Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in a town hall discussing his health care plan at Lehigh Valley Hospital.
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Medicare: Drifting Towards Disaster
4/29/2008
This event, co-sponsored by the Galen Institute, American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation, features a panel of experts who explore solutions for Medicare sustainability.
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McCain Delivers Address on Health Care Plan
4/29/2008
This event features Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)discussing his health care plan at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute.
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2008 n4a Aging Policy Briefing
4/29/2008
The National Association of Area Agencies on Aging hosts the 14th Annual Aging Policy Briefing in Washington D.C., which brings together key administration officials, aging policy analysts and congressional staff to discuss long-term care, Older Americans Act funding, Medicare, and Medicaid policy issues and other important topics in aging.
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Engineering a Learning Healthcare System: A Look at the Future
4/29/2008
The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies hosts this meeting on the U.S. health care system and potential reform efforts.
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The LBJ Centennial Medicare Conference: Past, Present, and Future
4/28/2008
This Medicare Conference, part of a series of activities to commemorate Lyndon B. Johnson's 100th birthday, brings together prominent scholars and policy makers to discuss issues central to Medicare policy. The conference is co-sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
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Improving the Quality and Value of Health Care
4/24/2008
The Leaders' Project on the State of American Health Care, part of the Bipartisan Policy Center, will involve top practitioners and experts in targeted meetings and workshops to develop a framework to accelerate constructive discussion and implementation of policy solutions to the nation’s most pressing health care issues. This forum focuses on improving quality and value in the delivery of health care.
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Health Reform Forum: Cost vs. Coverage - What's the Priority?
4/24/2008
This second National Federation of Independent Businesses Health Reform Forum features a panel of campaign surrogates for a discussion on the policies they believe will ultimately drive health care reform. The bipartisan panel provides diverse perspectives on what health care reform may look like in the next Administration and how best to prioritize driving down costs and expanding coverage.
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