The panelists provide reflections on the campaign for healthcare reform and how victory was achieved, and identify the hurdles and challenges to anticipate throughout implementation.
PRESENTERS
E.J. Dionne, Columnist, Washington Post
Judy Feder, Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University, Senior Fellow at Center for American Progress
Richard Kirsch, National Campaign Manager, Health Care for America NOW!
Moderated by Marcia Smith, Senior Vice President, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Bio
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, Jr. spent fourteen years with the New York Times, reporting on state and local government,
national politics, and from around the world, including stints in Paris, Rome, and Beirut. The Los Angeles Times praised his coverage of the Vatican as the best in two decades.
In 1990, Dionne joined the Washington Post as a reporter, covering national politics. His best-selling book, Why Americans Hate Politics (Simon & Schuster), was published in 1991. The book, which Newsday called "a classic in American political history," won the Los Angeles Times book prize, and was a National Book Award nominee.
Dionne began his op-ed column for the Post in 1993, and it is syndicated to more than 100 other newspapers. He has been a regular commentator on politics on television and radio.
Judy Feder
Judy Feder is Professor and Dean of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and was the 2006 Democratic nominee for Congress in Virginia's 10th Congressional District. She is one of the nation's leaders in health policy - most particularly, in efforts to understand and improve the nation's health insurance system.
A widely published scholar, her three decades of policy research began at the Brookings Institution, continued at the Urban Institute, and, since 1984, has flourished at Georgetown University. Her expertise on the uninsured, Medicare, Medicaid, and long-term care is regularly drawn upon by members of Congress, Executive officials, and the national media.
Richard Kirsch
Richard Kirsch was the National Campaign Manager of Health Care for America Now from the Campaign's founding to its successful conclusion in April 2010. HCAN is an 1,100 member coalition, led by major progressive organizations, that deployed staff in 44 states and spent $47 million to organize for comprehensive health care reform. As HCAN's chief spokesperson, Mr. Kirsch appeared on PBS's "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer", CNN, ABC's "World News Tonight" and "Good Morning America," Fox, CSPAN, and the "Colbert Report" and was frequently quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and other national newspapers as well as NPR's "Morning Edition," "All Things Considered" and "Marketplace." Mr. Kirsch now serves as Senior Advisor to HCAN.
Marcia Smith
Marcia A. Smith is Senior Vice President at The Atlantic Philanthropies, overseeing the four programme areas and their work in six geographies: Bermuda, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United States and Viet Nam. In addition, she supervises Strategic Learning, Communications and Advocacy. Ms. Smith is based in New York.
System for the advance financing of medical expenses through contributions or taxes paid into a common fund to pay for all or part of health services specified in an insurance policy or law. The key elements are advance payment of premiums or taxes, pooling of funds, and eligibility for benefits on the basis of contributions or employment without an income or assets test. Health insurance may apply to a limited or comprehensive range of medical services and may provide for full or partial payment of the costs of specific services. Benefits may consist of the right to certain medical services or reimbursement of the insured for specified medical costs. Private health insurance is organized and administered by an insurance company or other private agency; public health insurance is run by the government (seesocial insurance). Both forms of health insurance are to be distinguished from socialized medicine and government medical-care programs, in which doctors are employed directly or indirectly by the goverment, which also owns the health-care facilities (e.g., Britain's National Health Service). See alsoinsurance.
Branch of law dealing with various aspects of health care. Health law was traditionally known as legal medicine or forensic medicine and included primarily forensic pathology and forensic psychiatry, in which pathologists were asked to determine and testify to the cause of death in cases of suspected homicide or to aspects of various injuries involving crimes such as assault and rape. Today health law is applied not only to medicine but also to health care in general. Health law is especially important in cases with complicated ethical implications—for example, in the case of comatose patients who are kept alive by mechanical ventilation, when physicians and families are forced to decide whether or not it is more or less ethical to remove the ventilator. Other important aspects of health law include patients' rights and medical malpractice.
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