With health care on the short list of hot topics for this year's presidential election, many voters want to know exactly what the two leading candidates propose to do about Medicare, the uninsured, prescription drugs and rising health care costs if they're elected.
On Friday, Oct. 29, just days before the Nov. 2 election, representatives from the campaigns of George W. Bush and John Kerry will present their candidates' health plans (Bush, Kerry) an event being held at the University of Michigan Health System. A panel of experts representing health care, large and small employers, government and the insurance industry will examine those plans and their implications and costs.
The free public event will run from noon to 2 p.m. in the Ford Amphitheater on the second floor of University Hospital, and will offer voters a chance to ask questions of the candidates' representatives.
It's the latest in a series of health care discussions presented by the U-M Forum on Health Policy, and co-sponsored by the U-M Medical School's Department of Internal Medicine and Program in Society & Medicine, as well as the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Michigan and the U-M School of Public Health's Health Policy Students Association. For more information, call 734-996-4545 or e-mail gkasmer@umich.edu.
The discussion panel will include: