NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
                                
                  Health Care Program Meeting 
                                
                     Alan Garber, Organizer
                                
                       November 17, 2000
                                
                   1050 Massachusetts Avenue
                    Cambridge, Massachusetts
          
                       PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17:

 8:00 AM  Continental Breakfast

 8:30 AM  Presentations and Roundtable Discussion: 
          Economic Consequences of Health Insurance Reform 
          DAVID CUTLER, Harvard University and NBER
          JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER
          MARK MCCLELLAN, Stanford University and NBER
     
          Moderator, ALAN GARBER, Stanford University and NBER

10:30 AM  Break

10:45 AM  KATE BUNDORF, Stanford and NBER
          MARK PAULY, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
          Is Health Insurance Affordable?

11:45 PM  Lunch








12:45 PM  MARTIN GAYNOR, Carnegie Mellon and NBER 
          JAMES REBITZER,  Case Western Reserve and NBER
          LOWELL TAYLOR, Carnegie Mellon
          Incentives in HMOs

 1:45 PM  Break

 2:00 PM  ELLIOTT FISHER, Dartmouth College
          Is More Better?  Association between Intensity of Medical Services and Survival
          in Four Cohorts of Medicare Beneficiaries

 3:00 PM  Adjourn



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