Resource Center Events

UW Dept of Health Services Policy Seminar Series -- 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.

See also 2006 UW Dept of Health Services Policy Seminar Series
(seminars listed below)

--November 15, 2006--
"Another '94? Post-election analysis and implications for health policy in the 110th Congress"
Diana Birkett, MPH, MPA

--October 4, 2006--
"Preemptive Public Policy for Genomics"
Rick J. Carlson, JD

--March 15, 2006--
"A report on the CMS study of severity of illness, quality, patient satisfaction, and community benefits in physician-owned specialty hospitals compared to competing community hospitals"
Elisabeth Dowling Root, MA
Bill Dowling, Ph.D.
Cindy Watts, Ph.D.

--February 15, 2006--
"Public Financing and Delivery of HIV/AIDS Care: Securing the Legacy of Ryan White [Report of the Institute of Medicine's Committee of Public Financing and Delivery of HIV Care, 2005]"
Will Welton, DrPH, MHA

--January 4, 2006--
"To Improve Access to Primary Care Services, Should the VA Open New Clinics or Contract with Community Providers?"
Chuan-fen Liu, PhD, MPH

See also 2007 UW Dept of Health Services Policy Seminar Series