NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



Frontiers in Health Policy Research



June 20, 2007



David Cutler, Alan Garber, and Dana Goldman, Organizers



Kaiser Family Foundation

Barbara Jordan Conference Center

1330 G Street, NW

Washington, DC 20005

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20:



8:30 AM Continental Breakfast



9:00 AM FRANK R. LICHTENBERG, Columbia University and NBER

Pharmaceutical Innovation and U.S. Cancer Survival in the 1900s:

Evidence from linked SEER-MEDSTAT Data



9:50 AM WILLIAM H. DOW, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Risk Adjusted Subsidies for the Chronically III



10:40 AM Break



10:55 AM ELLEN MEARA, Harvard University and NBER

MEREDITH ROSENTHAL and ANNA SINAIKO, Harvard University

KATHERINE BAICKER, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

State and Federal Approaches to Health Reform:

What Works for the Working Poor?

and

Technical Appendix to State and Federal Approaches to Health Reform:

What Works for the Working Poor?



11:45 PM Lunch



12:15 PM M. KATE BUNDORF, Stanford University and NBER

VICTOR R. FUCHS, Stanford University and NBER

Public Support for National Health Insurance:

The Roles of Attitudes and Beliefs



1:05 PM JOSEPH P. NEWHOUSE, Harvard University and NBER

ANNA SINAIKO, Harvard University

Can Multi-Payer Financing Achieve Single-Payer Spending Levels?



2:15 PM Break



2:30 PM DAVE M. O'NEILL, Baruch College, CUNY

JUNE O'NEILL, Baruch College CUNY and NBER

Health Care Services and Health Status:

Canada vs the U.S.



3:20PM Adjourn



6/12/07