Join the LBJ Centennial Conference on Medicare

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<p>The Center for Health and Social Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs will host the <strong>LBJ Centennial Conference, Medicare: Past, Present, and Future,</strong> on Monday, April 28, 2008, at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum starting at 12:00, CDT. The conference, which is cosponsored by The Commonwealth Fund, will be webcast live at <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/webcasts">www.utexas.edu/lbj/webcasts</a>.<br… archived webcast of this event will be provided by kaisernetwork.org, and will be available Friday, May 2, at <a href="http://www.kaisernetwork.org/healthcast/commonwealth/28apr08">http://ww…;. A transcript will also be available.<br><br>The conference will examine the past, present, and future of Medicare, with keynote addresses from Peter Orszag, Ph.D., the director of the Congressional Budget Office, and Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Commonwealth Fund president Karen Davis, Ph.D., will participate in the "Medicare Policy Issues Facing the Next President" session.<br><br>For more information on the conference, visit <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/news/spring2008/medicare_conference.php">http…;

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