Health Care Leaders Discuss Ways To Improve Health Care In New Interview Series

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Article Date: 16 May 2008 - 9:00 PST

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"Viewpoints: The Health Care Debate": Kaiser Family Foundation: The new interview series, led by Kaiser Family Foundation Vice President Jackie Judd and kaisernetwork.org Managing Editor Jill Braden Balderas, examines the diversity of perspectives on the problems and potential solutions for improving health care in the U.S. In the interviews, health care leaders discuss their priorities for change and their views on the prospects for change after the 2008 election, as well as what the next president and Congress should do to make the health system work more efficiently. Now available online are interviews with Families USA Executive Director Ron Pollack; National Association of Manufacturers President and CEO John Engler, former governor of Michigan; National Medical Association Executive Director Mohammad Akhter; and National Governors Association Executive Director Ray Scheppach (Kaiser Family Foundation release, 5/14).

Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.kaisernetwork.org. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/dailyreports/healthpolicy. The Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report is published for kaisernetwork.org, a free service of The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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