These special events are part of Oregon Health Forum’s ongoing efforts to provide Oregon’s business, health industry and civic leaders information on national health care reform proposals. Stay tuned for more exciting events!
Better Health Care Together Monday, March 10, 2008
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Panelists: Craig Barrett, Chairman of the Board, Intel Corporation Carl Camden, President & CEO, Kelly Services Alice Dale, Vice President, SEIU International; President, SEIU Local 49 Susan Sherry, Deputy Director, Community Catalyst Bill Thorndike, President, Medford Fabrication
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Bill Thorndike updates the audience on the work of the Oregon Health Fund Board.
Craig Barrett and Susan Sherry.
From left: Moderator David Von Drehle, Alice Dale and Carl Camden.
From left: Better Health Care Together executive director Jody Hoffman and Oregon Health Forum executive director Carol Robinson.
Examining HealthCare Vouchers
with Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health Wednesday, January 30, 2008
The Governor Hotel
In an article two years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel and his colleague Dr. Victor Fuchs, emeritus professor of economics at Stanford University, coined the phrase “HealthCare Vouchers” as a national reform plan for our broken health care system. Since then, they’ve presented their paper to the Brookings Institute and gained national attention for the proposal’s ten fundamental principles, outlined here:
Guaranteed health care for all Americans
Comprehensive benefits
Free choice of plan and providers
Freedom to purchase additional services
Funding by an earmarked value-added tax
End of employer-based health insurance
Phasing out of Medicare and Medicaid
Independent oversight
Cost and quality control
Patient safety and dispute resolution
Thanks to all who joined us for this engaging conversation. We hope to be able to invite Dr. Emanuel for another event.
