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Roosevelt Rx Student Health Policy Conference Issue Module

 Roosevelt.jpgThe Roosevelt Institution is a non-partisan national network of campus-based student think tanks. At the first Roosevelt Rx National Student Health Policy Forum hosted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, over one hundred students gathered from across the country in Washington D.C. to hear experts discuss the key health policy issues facing young adults such as health care costs, access to care, health disparities, and health care in the 2008 election.

Friday, March 14, 2008

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   Robert Nelb, National Policy Coordinator, Roosevelt Institution

   Alina Salganicoff, Vice President & Director of Women's Health Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation

 

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   Ben Finder, Research Assistant, Health Care Marketplace Project, Kaiser Family Foundation
   More Money, More Problems: The Rise of Health Care Expenditures and Costs
   Isabel Sawhill, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
   The Intergenerational Balancing Act: Where Children Fit in an Aging Society
   Stuart Butler, Vice President, Domestic and Economic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation

   Robert Bixby, Executive Director, Concord Coalition
   Medicare's Daunting Fiscal Outlook
 

 

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   Cara James, Senior Policy Analyst, Kaiser Family Foundation
   Health Professionals and Health Disparities

   Amisha Patel, Program Director, ProjectHEALTH
   Project Health: Theory of Change

   Mariza Hardin, Advocacy Chair, APHA Student Assembly
   American Public Health Association Student Assembly

   Brad Wright, Assistant Director for Health Policy, Association of Clinicians for the Uninsured
   Title VII & the Health Care Workforce: Are We Asking the Right Questions?

 

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   Tanya Schwartz, Policy Analyst, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid & the Uninsured, Kaiser Family Foundation
   Young Adults: Health Coverage and Access to Care
   Linda Hinman, Vice President of Federal Policy, America's Health Insurance Plans
   Jacob Bor, S.M. candidate, Harvard School of Public Health

   Ramona Whittington, MPH candidate, George Washington University

 

Keynote: Health Care in the 2008 Election videoicon.gif (Click here to access video)
   Claudia Deane, Associate Director for Public Opinion & Media Research, Kaiser Family Foundation
   Health Care and the Presidential Election

   Judy Feder, Professor of Public Policy, former Dean of Georgetown Public Policy Institute

 

Breakout Sessions Recap videoicon.gif (Click here to access video)
Tools for Turning Ideas Into Action videoicon.gif (Click here to access video)
   Caitlin Howarth, Director of Operations, Roosevelt Institution
   Jen Hoeltzer, Director of Communications, Senator Wyden
   Ezra Klein, Staff writer, American Prospect

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