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Session: P Ellen Parsons Memorial Session: Universal Access: At a Tipping Point?
4238.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
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P Ellen Parsons Memorial Session: Universal Access: At a Tipping Point?
New initatives to provide health care coverage and access are being approved at the state and local levels. These initiatives may help break the impasse on covering the 45 million uninsured in the U.S., but important challenges lie ahead. This session explores challenges and promises for new programs at the state level in Massachusetts, and in the City and County of San Francisco, and their implications for a population-based approach to improving the public's health. Presenters will explore the elements of these programs, populations covered, affordability for individuals and other payers, cost controls, range of services, and governance. The discussant will consider prospects for improving equity and quality of care.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to discuss: State and local trends in expanding coverage for health care services Approaches to covarage and access in Massachusetts and San Francisco Implications of new programs for equity and quality of care
Organizer(s):Ellen R. Shaffer, PhD, MPH
Presider(s):Ellen R. Shaffer, PhD MPH
Discussant(s):Nancy Norman, MD, MPH
Moderator(s):Ellen R. Shaffer, PhD, MPH
2:30 PMMassachusetts' Health Care Access Law: Consensus produced through the political process
Emily Sherwood
2:45 PMIf Health Care for All Is a Moral Right in Massachusetts, then Cost Control Is a Moral Duty
Alan Sager, PhD, Deborah Socolar
3:00 PMSan Francisco Health Access Program: Policy and possibilities  [ Recorded presentation ]
Mitch Katz, MD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Medical Care
Endorsed by:Maternal and Child Health; Socialist Caucus; Spirit of 1848 Caucus; Vietnam Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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