Health care reform, medical costs to be focus of conference at Cornell
ITHACA, N.Y. â€" More than 700 health economists will gather on the Cornell University campus from Monday, June 21 through Wednesday, June 23, 2010, to discuss health care reform, as well as the economics of major public health issues such as obesity, drug abuse and smoking.
(Media-Newswire.com) - ITHACA, N.Y. – More than 700 health economists will gather on the Cornell University campus from Monday, June 21 through Wednesday, June 23, 2010, to discuss health care reform, as well as the economics of major public health issues such as obesity, drug abuse and smoking.
The Third Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists, themed “Health, Healthcare & Behavior,” will feature more than 160 sessions that examine such topics as the uninsured, hospital competition, public and private care, prescription drug costs, consumer choice, small business insurance plans and Medicare from an economic perspective. Other aspects to be covered include the public and private costs of cancer treatment, suicide, aging and H1N1 influenza.
Cornell President David Skorton, a cardiologist, will welcome participants to the conference’s first plenary session, where W. Kip Viscusi, University Distinguished Professor of Law, Economics, and Management at Vanderbilt University, will talk about society’s willingness to pay for life-saving public policies.
Leading the second plenary session will be Columbia University economist Sherry Glied, a nominee for the post of assistant secretary for policy and evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In her presentation, “Now What? The Health Economics Agenda after Health Care Reform,” Glied plans to discuss how economic research influenced the recent health care debate and to suggest areas for further study as lawmakers implement the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
The conference is sponsored by the Sloan Program in Health Administration and the Department of Policy Analysis and Management in Cornell’s College of Human Ecology. It is co-hosted by Syracuse University and the University of Rochester.
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