Fed Event: Health Policy, Wed., 5/4 at 9 am in D.C.

A 21st century health care roadmap: the path from peril to promise
Support your fellow fed sem'er, Pam Savitz, who is helping to organize this event through her internship!

WHEN: May 5, 2010, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
WHERE: National Press Club 529 14th Street, NW · 13th Floor · First Amendment Room Washington, DC 20045
RSVP:healthcommission@gmail.com

America’s health care system is in crisis. Despite spending 17.3% of its GDP on health in 2009, the U.S. health care system is inefficient, inequitable, and ineffective for many people. The United States ranks only 49th globally on life expectancy, and Americans get the correct treatment only 55% of the time. Simply put, America is not getting what it pays for.

A Commission of national health experts convened by the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC) has developed an integrated approach and roadmap to help put "health" back into our nation's health care system, mobilizing all sectors of American society to address the challenges and opportunities following health care reform. Already, the CSPC Health Commission’s proposals have helped shape new Federal initiatives and have been incorporated into recent legislation.

On May 5, 2010, the Commission on U.S. Federal Leadership in Health and Medicine: Charting Future Directions will roll out its second report, A 21st Century Roadmap for Advancing America's Health: The Path from Peril to Progress, emphasizing a comprehensive spectrum of actions to build a 21st century system that will make America the healthiest nation in the world.

Panelists include

• Denis Cortese, MD, Emeritus President and CEO, Mayo Clinic and Director, Healthcare Delivery and Policy Program, Arizona State University;


• Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA (ret.), Director, Health and Medicine Program, Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and Former U.S. Assistant Surgeon General;


• Robert Tjian, PhD, President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,Bernadine Healy, MD, Health Editor, U.S. News and World Report and Former Director, National Institutes of Health;


• Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, Chair of the Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health; and Steven Woolf, MD, MPH, Director, Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Human Needs, and


• Joanne Conroy, MD, Chief Health Care Officer, Association of American Medical Colleges.