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Legal Solutions in Health Reform: The State of the Debate ruler
For Immediate Release
October 21, 2009

Media Contact:
Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

MEDIA ADVISORY

WHAT:

"Legal Solutions in Health Reform: The State of the Debate "

WHEN:

Monday, October 26, 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

 

WHERE:

Georgetown University Law Center

Gewirz Student Center - 12th Floor

120 F Street, NW

Washington, D.C.  20001

 

WHO:

9:00 - 9:10 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction

Nan Hunter, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and Acting Faculty Director, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

9:10 - 10:10 a.m.

Discrimination in Federal Health Reform

Sara Rosenbaum, Chair, Department of Health Policy, Professor of Health Law and Policy, Professor of Health Services Management and Leadership and of Health Care Sciences, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services

Steve Hitov, Managing Attorney, National Health Law Program

10:20 - 11:20 a.m.

The Constitutionality of Mandates to Purchase Health Insurance

Louis Michael Seidman, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

David B. Rivkin, Jr., Partner, Baker Hostetler

11:35 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.

Health Insurance Exchanges: Legal Issues

Timothy S. Jost, Professor, Washington & Lee School of Law

M. Gregg Bloche, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Stuart Butler, Vice President, Domestic and Economic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation

12:50 - 1:20 p.m.

Keynote Speaker

Jacob Hacker, Professor of Political Science, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University

1:20 - 1:30 p.m.

Closing Remarks

Sara P. Hoverter, Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Harrison Institute for Public Law, Georgetown University Law Center

 

NOTE:

The panelists will analyze how particular issues of law have fared and are likely to fare in the continuing effort to enact health reform legislation.

This event is sponsored by the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.

A Webcast will be available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/.

Media interested in attending should e-mail mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.