New Report to Highlight Need for Public Health Insurance Plan Outlined in Obama’s Proposals
December 15, 2008
Author Jacob Hacker Finds Public Plan Vital to Controlling Costs, Improving Quality as Health Care Reform Debate Centers on Public Insurance Choice
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Rep.
Pete Stark, D-Calif., and
Liz Fowler, senior counsel to Sen.
Max Baucus, will join health care expert and
U.C. Berkeley professor
Jacob Hacker and Institute for America’s Future co-director
Roger Hickey on a conference call with reporters on Wednesday to release a new report that shows that a public insurance option is a critical element of President-elect Obama‘s health care reforms.
With the insurance industry opposing key elements of reform embraced by President-elect Obama, his health care point person
Tom Daschle and Senate Finance Committee chairman Sen.
Max Baucus, the new report shows that a public insurance option is crucial to controlling health care costs and achieving quality coverage.
NEWS TELECONFERENCE TO RELEASE A
NEW REPORT ON PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE
DATE: Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008
TIME: 11 a.m. ET (8 a.m. PT)
CALL-IN: 866-316-1366, code 4839124
PARTICIPANTS:
Roger Hickey, co-dir., Institute for America’s Future
Rep.
Pete Stark, D-Calif., chair, House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee
Jacob Hacker, co-dir.,
U.C. Berkeley School of Law Center on Health, Economic and Family Security
Liz Fowler, sr. counsel, Senate Finance Committee Chairman
Max Baucus, D-Mont., and author of recent Baucus health white paper
SOURCE Institute for America’s Future
Source: newswire
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