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HSC Holds Sixth Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Roundtable

Media Advisories
July 5, 2001

FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Alwyn Cassil: 202/264-3484 or
Richard Sorian: 202/484-3475

Wall Street analysts and Washington policy experts will explore what the latest market developments mean for national health policy and how new and pending legislation will affect the outlook for health care companies, including managed care plans, hospitals and physician organizations.

For more information or to register, go to the Wall Street Conference information page.

WHAT: The Center for Studying Health System Change’s (HSC) sixth annual Wall Street Comes to Washington: Market Watchers and Policy Analysts Evaluate the Health System roundtable.
WHEN: Thursday, July 12, 2001, 9 a.m. to noon. Continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m.
WHERE: The Capital Hilton, 1001 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
WHO: Robert A. Berenson, M.D., senior adviser, Academy for Health Services Research and Policy; Dennis Farrell, managing director, Moody’s Investors Service; Norman M. Fidel, senior vice president, Alliance Capital Management; Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., HSC president; Roberta Walter Goodman, managing director, Merrill Lynch; Joy M. Grossman, Ph.D., associate director, HSC; Geoffrey E. Harris, managing director, UBS Warburg; and Robert Reischauer, president, The Urban Institute.
HOW: Did you miss the Wall Street webcast? The entire roundtable is available at any time on kaisernetwork.org, a free service of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Click here for the audio webcast
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.

Among the topics to be covered: What are the implications of the retreat from managed care? Are there innovations in the wings to help control prescription drug, physician and hospital costs? How will the industry react to policy proposals to expand Medicare outpatient prescription drug coverage? How can the government restore confidence in the Medicare+Choice program? How much of a difference would stand-alone tax credits make for the uninsured?

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