Health Care: Obama & McCain - Friday 10/24, 7-9pm

Health Care Policy Panel: Comparing Obama & McCain [10/24]
Come attend a panel discussion of experts comparing McCain's vs. Obama's health care policies. This event is free and open to the public.

NYU Kimmel Center Room 802 (Student Life)
60 Washington Square South
New York, 10012
Friday, October 24th
Time: 7PM-9PM

WHAT THE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL FACE
*Controlling spiraling costs of health insurance
*Expanding access to health coverage
*Reining in growth in Medicare and Medicaid budgets
*Modernizing record keeping and tracking treatment outcomes

How health care costs have increased since the last presidential election
THE UNINSURED
2004: 43.5 million
2008: 45.7 million
(2007 sample)
5 percent increase in uninsured people

U.S. HEALTH CARE SPENDING
2004: $1.9 trillion (15.9 percent of GDP)
2008: $2.4 trillion (projected)
(16.6 percent of GDP)
29 percent increase in spending

MEDICARE COSTS
2004: $309.3 billion
2008: $460.7 billion (projected)
49 percent increase in spending

Listed below are the panelists:
Minalkumar Pate,l MD, MPH
CEO, Care Management International Inc.

Irwin Redlener, MD
Professor of Population and Family Health
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; President, Children's Health Fund, Senior Advisor for Doctors for Obama

Eric Adler, MD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cardiology

Niketa Sheth, MPA
Senior Strategic Planner
NYU Langone Medical Center

Jamalia L. Brashears, MPA
Senior Consultant
Ernst & Young, LLP, Health Sciences and Advisory Services