Congressional Briefing Tuesday on Increasing Health Care Costs 9/26/2002
From: Hollis Hope or Kari Root, 202-292-6700, both for AcademyHealth News Advisory: -- Congressional Briefing Tuesday, Oct. 1 -- Saving Health Care Dollars: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality at Work Once again, health care costs are increasing at double-digit rates. High medical inflation leads employers to ask employees to contribute more toward their health benefits or to drop coverage altogether. States are finding it harder to balance their budgets against rising Medicaid costs as Congress struggles to expand Medicare benefits. Hear the latest findings from AHRQ-sponsored research on the drivers of health care costs and possible solutions Tuesday, October 1: WHO: -- Uwe Reinhardt, PhD, James Madison Professor of Economics, Princeton University; -- Carolyn Clancy, MD, acting director, AHRQ; -- Gail Wilensky, PhD, Project HOPE; -- and Robert Hurley, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University. Rep. Ernest Istook (R-Okla.) will provide introductory remarks. WHEN: 1 p.m. to 3:15 p.m., Oct. 1 (lunch provided) WHERE: HC-5, Capitol Building, Washington, DC RSVP: Please RSVP by Friday, Sept. 27 by phone or e-mail at 202-292-6766 or briefing@academyhealth.org. Sponsored by AcademyHealth(a) and Friends of AHRQ. For more information, call Jon Lawniczak, AcademyHealth Director of Government Relations, at 202-292-6700. ------ AcademyHealth is the professional home for health services researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners, and a leading, non-partisan resource for the best in health research and policy. Friends of AHRQ is a coalition of over 100 organizations of providers, consumers, businesses, and researchers who support and use the research produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (a)Formerly the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy |