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…
605 viewsPanelists 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…
605 viewsPanelists 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…
437 viewsPanelists 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…
314 viewsDirector 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…
1,025 viewsNancy-Ann DeParle facilitated a meeting with representatives of health care companies and community organizations. They discussed health care issues from consumer and provider perspectives, …
1,926 viewsCNBC 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?…
155 viewsFormer 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 …
218 viewsMark 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…
319 viewsThe 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…
202 viewsSecretary 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…
63 viewsThe 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…
45 viewsGail 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…
43 viewsParticipants discussed financing health care, welfare reform, and the legislative future of both. They answered audience questions. The National Conference of State Legislatures represents t…
31 viewsThe 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…
33 viewsParticipants included Mark Gearan, White House Communications Director; Robert Rubin, Economic Adviser to the President; Leon Panetta, White House Budget Director; Roger Altman, Deputy Treas…
45 viewsSenate 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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