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Experts from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid released their report on health spending trends in 2011. They used charts to demonstrate that increases in Medicare spending were offset by…

Constitutional and health law scholars, practitioners and commentators talked about the Supreme Court decision that the Affordable Care Act, the health care law, is constitutional. The court…

Susan Dentzer and Robert Barnes talked about the legal and policy implications of the Supreme Court’s decision on the the health care law, the Affordable Care Act. Telephone lines were open …

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…

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…

Susan Dentzer talked about the Supreme Court’s decision to review the 2010 health care law, including the individual mandate, and the expansion of Medicaid. She responded to telephone calls …

Karen Pollitz talked about Health and Human Services Department efforts to help consumers understand their insurance options as the new health care law is implemented. Among the new tools fr…

Leading Democratic and Republican pollsters talked about the role health care has played in 2010 midterm elections. Wilt Ayres talked about the Republican Party view of the health care law, …

Participants debated U.S. foreign policy and global health issues. Ambassador Princeton Lyman proposed that the United States' commitment to helping treat HIV patients limited U.S. leverage …

Secretary Sebelius made opening remarks at a forum on improving and administering primary health care. She was followed by remarks on the current crisis in primary health care and various pr…

Participants talked about the current crisis in primary health care and various proposals for addressing the problems in the system. They also focused on several pilot programs, models, and …

Participants talked about implementing health care policy and the administration of primary health care by building cooperative teams. They also responded to questions from the audience.

Panelists talked about the health care debate in congress and their insights on where the legislation could head next. They also responded to questions from members of the audience.

Health policy and aging experts talked about the challenges of providing sustained quality care to the disabled and aged in assisted living arrangements.

Officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services spoke about a report on 2008 health care spending which found significant slowing of government spending. Following their remark…

Health policy and aging experts talked about the challenges of providing sustained quality care to the disabled and aged.

Peter Orszag talked about the status of health care legislation. In his remarks he talked about economists' recommendations for health care legislation and compared those recommendations wit…

Panelists talked about end of life issues in relation to a proposal to pay physicians under Medicare to conduct advance-planning consultations with patients. Topics “final illness” costs, pa…

Health Affairs Magazine held a conference to address key issues in health care reform and to discuss facts and fictions about health care legislation. Health Affairs editor-in-chief Susa…

The Alliance for Health Reform held a panel discussion on the contents of health care legislation currently on Capitol Hill, as well as how state-level health care reform has fared in Massac…