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Election 2008: Health Care in the Next Administration

September 12, 2008
David Cutler senior health advisor, Barack Obama
Gail Wilenksky senior health advisor, John McCain
Arnold Epstein chair, Health Policy and Management, Harvard
Karen Davis president, The Commonwealth Fund
Jon Kingsdale executive director, Commonwealth Connector
Thomas Lee president, Partners HealthCare

Senior health policy advisors for the 2008 presidential election discuss their candidates' positions on health care reform.

The future of health care in the United States, access, cost, and quality, is a critical issue in the 2008 election. David Cutler of Harvard University, health advisor to Democrat Barack Obama, and Gail Wilensky of Project HOPE, health advisor to Republican John McCain, discuss these issues in a symposium cosponsored by the Journal and the Harvard School of Public Health. The debate is moderated by Arnold Epstein, of the Journal and the Department of Health Policy and Management at HSPH, and features questions from a distinguished panel of experts: Karen Davis of the Commonwealth Fund, Jon Kingsdale of the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, and Thomas Lee of Partners HealthCare and the New England Journal of Medicine.

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New England Journal of Medicine
Image of Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System
Author: David M. Cutler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (2005)
Binding: Paperback, 176 pages
Author: Professor Diane Rowland, Dr. Karen Davis PhD
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (1990)
Binding: Hardcover, 328 pages