TCF Fellow Maggie Mahar to Blog Live from Business and National Health Care Reform ...( Sponsored by The Century Foundati...),Health

Sponsored by The Century Foundation with support from The Commonwealth Fund, and AARP

NEW YORK, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following release is being issued by The Century Foundation:

WHAT: Blogging Live from "Business and National Health Care

Reform" Conference

TCF Fellow Maggie Mahar, author of Money-Driven Medicine:

The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much (Harper/Collins

2006) and a former financial journalists who wrote for

Insitutional Investor, the New York Times, and Barrons,

will blog live from this conference, in which CEOs of major

companies, health benefits leaders, and experts in health

care policy will discuss the renewed interest of private

sector in health care reform, the challenges to -- and

prospects for -- continued employer-based coverage, and

the strengths and weaknesses, from a business perspective,

of recent proposals for universal coverage.

WHEN: September 14th, 2007, 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

WHERE: Read the Blog at http://www.healthbeatblog.org or

http://www.tcf.org

The event will take place at the National Press Club,

14th and F Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C.

TOPICS: The future of employment-based health insurance, the

business case for national health care reform, and

employer innovations in health care

SPEAKERS

INCLUDE: John Arensmeyer, Founder and CEO, Small Business Majority

Bruce Bodaken, CEO, Blue Shield of California

Francois de Brantes, National Coordinator, Bridges to

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