UW Dept of Health Services Policy Seminar Series:

Seminars for 2005

Though primarily intended for UW faculty and staff, all are welcome to the policy seminar series. The series often features discussions in a Point/Counterpoint format. The full list of seminar titles, topics, and speakers is available here.

--November 16, 2005--
"The End Game: Is Health Care an Asset or an Entitlement?"

Rick Carlson, JD, Senior Advisor, Resource Center for Health Policy
Phil Haas, Executive Director of Northwest Markets, Aetna.

Background reading: Carlson, Rick. "The End Game". 11/16/2005.

Background reading: Chambers, Susan (internal Wal-Mart memorandum). "Reviewing and Revising Wal-Mart's Benefits Strategy". FY06.

 

--October 26, 2005--
"Disowned in the Ownership Society: Does market ideology prevent us from making good health policy choices?"

Aaron Katz, Senior Lecturer, Dept of Health Services
Lou Garrison, Professor, School of Pharmacy.

Background reading: Gladwell, Malcolm. "The Moral-Hazard Myth." The New Yorker. 08/29/2005.

Background reading: Rice, Thomas. "Can Markets Give Us the Health System We Want?" Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Vol. 22, No. 2, April 1997.