3056.0: Monday, October 22, 2001: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | ||||
Oral Session | ||||
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| Though most are genuinely concerned about the uninsured, labor movement activists committed to defending their Taft-Hartley health plans, and most privately insured people, are apprehensive about exchanging what they have and already know and replacing it with something as yet non-existent. Many Medicare beneficiaries are similarly apprehensive, both about doing that and, alternatively, about proposals to universalize Medicare. How can these constituencies' support be won for legislation to cover all the uninsured? It has been proposed that integration of these hesitant constituencies into the new plan be left statutorily entirely to their option, subject to no deadline or penalty. Premise: if you build it they will come. | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: NA | ||||
| Sidney J. Socolar, PhD | ||||
| My 14 presidents and the nation's longest-running crisis Max Fine | ||||
| Labor and national health legislation Frank Goldsmith, DrPH | ||||
| The American public will accept moves toward universal coverage Benjamin I. Page, PhD | ||||
| Labor and national health care in France Roger Gauvrit | ||||
| Sponsor: | Medical Care | |||
| Cosponsors: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Latino Caucus; Occupational Health and Safety; Social Work; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Chiropractic, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | |||