Center for Studying Health System Change

16th Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Roundtable on Oct. 12

Media Advisory
Sept. 19, 2011

FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Alwyn Cassil (202) 264-3484 or acassil@hschange.org

WASHINGTON, DC—Wall Street analysts and Washington policy experts will explore what the latest market developments mean for national health policy and how the political climate will affect the outlook for health care companies, including health plans, hospitals and pharmaceutical firms.

WHAT: The Center for Studying Health System Change’s (HSC) 16th annual roundtable – Wall Street Comes to Washington, sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation

WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2010, from 9 a.m. to noon. Continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m.

WHERE: Marriott at Metro Center, 775 12th Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004

WHO: Robert Berenson, M.D., The Urban Institute; Matthew Borsch, Goldman Sachs; Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., HSC; Carl McDonald, Citi Investment Research; Doug Simpson, Morgan Stanley; and Gary Taylor, Citigroup.

WHY: By bridging the worlds of Wall Street and Washington, HSC hopes to provide a better understanding of how health care markets work and what changes in the health care system mean for people and policy.

For more information, contact Alwyn Cassil at acassil@hschange.org or 202-264-3484 or register online at http://www.hschange.org/index.cgi?conf=show&what=29

The Center for Studying Health System Change is a nonpartisan policy research organization committed to providing objective and timely research on the nation’s changing health system to help inform policy makers and contribute to better health care policy. HSC, based in Washington, D.C., is funded in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is affiliated with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

The Peter G. Peterson Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization established by Pete Peterson— businessman, philanthropist, and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce. The Foundation is dedicated to increasing public awareness of the nature and urgency of key long-term fiscal challenges threatening America’s future and to accelerating action on them. To address these challenges successfully, we work to bring Americans together to find and implement sensible, long-term solutions that transcend age, party lines and ideological divides in order to achieve real results. To learn more, please visit www.PGPF.org.