The Politics and Ethics of Health Care Reform

Summary: "The Politics and Ethics of Health Care Reform" is the topic of a webinar that MentorHealth, a leading provider of online training for the healthcare industry, is organizing on May 8. Emily Friedman, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health and an independent health policy and ethics analyst, will be speaker at this session.

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Description:

This webinar will seek to unearth some of the bitter deliberate misinformation regarding major current reform initiatives.

Affordable Care Act (ACA), the HITECH Act, and state coverage innovations have created a system in which there is a major, dispiriting political fight over the government's role in health care and the responsibility of the individual. Insurers have tried to get around the new rules; state governors have refused to participate in or enforce certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act; adoption of new approaches by providers, even when virtually mandated, has been spotty. The result is a landscape littered with uncertainty and inconsistency that has left the average health care professional confused and, in many cases, angry.

This webinar will examine what has happened historically with tough health policy fights and their results, and will apply some of those lessons to the current situation. It will also provide objective information about some of the major contemporary battles, what the truths and falsehoods are, and what may happen with regard to them.

It will also identify political and ethics issues that are part and parcel of the changing scene that have been largely overlooked, such as the ACA's failure to provide for the poorest of the poor, the gray area of coverage for undocumented immigrants, the coming fight over what constitutes optimal care for a given condition, changes in payment structure that will force providers to think in entirely new ways, and the failure of the ACA (or any other initiative, for that matter) to ensure that health care will be both accessible and affordable going forward.

The speaker will cover the following areas:

• Previous major battles over health care system reform initiatives - what happened and why
• The politics of reform - high stakes, key players
• Unresolved political issues of recent reform initiatives
• Unresolved ethics issues of recent reform initiatives
• Improving both the environment and the quality of the debate
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When: May 8, 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

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By whom:

Emily Friedman is an independent health policy and ethics analyst based in Chicago, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health.

A prolific lecturer and writer; Ms. Friedman has been named one of the "100 Most Powerful People in Health Care" and one of the "Top 25 Women in Health Care" by Modern Healthcare Magazine. She has won many other awards and honors. In 2011, 2012, and 2014, she was named one of the "top five" health care speakers in the United States by Speaking.com.

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For whom:

The webinar will benefit

• Health Care Professionals
• Hospital and Health System Trustees
• Executives, Clinician Leaders, and Department Heads
• Employers and Employer Health Care Coalitions
• Biomedical Ethicists and Consultants
• News Media Representatives who cover the health care field
• Community Health Care Advocates
• Health Care Planners
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Duration: 60 minutes

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To enroll for this webinar, contact

webinars@mentorhealth.com

Ph: 800-385-1607

http://bit.ly/1pHTmu3

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