Baker Institute offers briefing on the future of U.S. health-care policy

Baker Institute offers briefing on the future of U.S. health-care policy

BY FRANZ BROTZEN
Rice News Staff

As health care emerges as one of the key issues in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy will hold a briefing Feb. 26 to consider the steps that the next president must take to reform the health-care system.

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Part of the Baker Institute’s series “Campaign 2008: The Issues Considered,” the event will look at health insurance coverage, controlling health-care costs and financing health-care reform.

Speakers will include Karen Davis, president of The Commonwealth Fund, and Jonathan Skinner, the John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor of Economics at Dartmouth.

Studies show more than 40 million uninsured Americans are receiving inadequate care and placing increasing strains on the U.S. health-care system. Meantime, Americans are alarmed by the rising costs of health insurance and health care. The Feb. 26 event, titled “Campaign 2008: What Can the Next President Do to Reform U.S. Health Care?” begins at 6 p.m.

For more on the event, go to www.bakerinstitute.org/events/campaign-2008-what-can-the-next-president-do-to-reform-u-s-health-care.

The event will be held in James A. Baker III Hall’s Doré Commons.

Rice faculty, staff and students who want to attend must R.S.V.P. by e-mail (<bipprsvp@rice.edu>) or by fax (713-348-5993).