Category: 22nd National Conference
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25th National Primary Health Care Access Conference – April 14-16, 2014 in San Francisco
The Twenty-Fifth of the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access will be held April 14 through 16, 2014 (concluding at noon on April 16th) at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. The theme of the conference is “What to Expect?”. Information on the program and faculty will be posted over the next several weeks. For…
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Faculty List for 22nd National Conference on Primary Health Care Access
The daily plenary program of the Twenty-Second National Conference on Primary Health Care Access has been announced. The plenary faculty for the National Conference, which will be held April 18-20, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, are listed below. On the first day of the National Conference, summaries and critiques of the 2010 Act,…
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22nd National Conference: Doctors Norman Kahn, Perry A. Pugno and Thomas Hansen to Discuss Physician Workforce in Era of Health Insurance Reform
The second day (Tuesday, April 19, 2011) of the 22nd National Conference on Primary Health Care Access will concentrate on its expected impact of the nation’s health care delivery system, specifically regarding the nation’s physician workforce. What impact the legislated changes are to have on medical education will also be considered. The plenary theme panel,…
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PPACA Puzzle Pieces: Doctors John Geyman, Joshua Freeman Analyze 2010's Health Legislation at 22nd National Conference
The last period in which federal legislation dealt comprehensively with the American health care system was in mid-1960s. Now, nearly four and a half decades after the passage of Medicare and Medicaid, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has been enacted, which is significantly more comprehensive that Medicare or Medicaid and has proved…
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Activities of the Fellows and Senior Fellows of the Coastal Research Group: Dr Marc Babitz Appointed to Federal Committee to Review MUA, HPSA Criteria
Marc Babitz, MD, a senior fellow of the Coastal Research Group, has been appointed to a 24-member federal committee that will review and update the criteria used to define health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) and medically underserved areas (MUAs). The two types of federal designation, created respectively by the 1970 federal legislation that established the National…
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Issues in Implementation of Health Care Reform Legislation: Part One – Student Indebtedness
Over the past 21 years, the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access have identified many factors that have resulted in observable imbalances between primary and subspecialty medical care and imbalances between public health needs and the resources applied to them. The most recent National Conference (April 2010) examined some of the consequences of the…