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    Health Care Cost Increases

    Panelists talked about the causes of rising health care costs. Topics included the cost of high-tech medical procedures, chronic disease, life style choices and high-cost patients. They resp…

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    Solutions for Rising Health Care Costs

    Panelists talked about the causes of rising health care costs. Topics included the cost of high-tech medical procedures, chronic disease, life style choices and high-cost patients. They resp…

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    Congressional Debate on Health Care Legislation

    Panelists talked about where the health care reform debate is headed as Congress returns from August break. Among they topics they addressed were ways to control and the causes of health car…

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    White House Health Care Roundtable

    Director of the White House Office of Health Reform Nancy-Ann DeParle held a roundtable discussion on the implications of advanced models of primary care. They talked about the challenges in…

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    White House Health Care Reform Meeting

    Nancy-Ann DeParle facilitated a meeting with representatives of health care companies and community organizations. They discussed health care issues from consumer and provider perspectives, …

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    Chronic Disease Prevention and Management

    CNBC Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood moderated this panel discussion entitled: “Health Care Debate in the 2008 Presidential Election: Are We Hearing Enough About Chronic Disease?…

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    Fighting Chronic Disease

    Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle made the keynote address at a forum on the role of chronic disease prevention and management in the reform of the health care system. Several video …

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    Campaign 2008 and Healthcare

    Mark McClellan and Ken Thorpe talked about healthcare issues in the 2008 presidential campagins. Professor Thorpe and Dr. McClellan are lobbying presidential campaigns in an attempt to chang…

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    Rising Health Care Costs

    The fifth of the Harvard Forums on Health focused on how to deal with the rising cost of health care. Mr. Thorpe gave the keynote address. Among the questions addressed was whether the risin…

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    Health Care Reform Briefing

    Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala and other senior Administration officials discussed a recent report illustrating, state by state, the economic and human cost of the curr…

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    Presidential Health Care Proposal

    The Department of Health & Human Services held a news conference earlier today to release the results of a study on the economic impact health care reform would have on states. Deputy Assist…

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    Presidential Health Care Proposal

    Gail Wilensky, who served in the Health Care Financing Administration during President George HW Bush’s presidency, and Ken Thorpe, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Policy with the Depa…

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    Presidential Health Care Proposal

    Participants discussed financing health care, welfare reform, and the legislative future of both. They answered audience questions. The National Conference of State Legislatures represents t…

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    Presidential Health Care Proposal

    The guests discussed and answered questions on health care reform and the financing of President Clinton’s plan. Mr. Scully questioned the underlying assumptions of the plan. Mr. Thorpe stre…

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    Special Briefing on Health Care Proposal

    Participants included Mark Gearan, White House Communications Director; Robert Rubin, Economic Adviser to the President; Leon Panetta, White House Budget Director; Roger Altman, Deputy Treas…

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    Tax Incentive Based Health Care Reform

    Senate Finance Committee held a hearing about Tax-Incentive Based Healthcare reform. The committee heard testimony in another of a series of hearings on proposals to reform the American heal…

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