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# Is This Socialized Medicine? 

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Date and Time 

June 25, 2009 12 - 1:30 PM EDT 

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Auditorium/Wintergarden 

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##### Featuring 

Featuring **Stan Dorn**, Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute and **Michael F. Cannon**, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute. 

As with past attempts to overhaul America’s health care sector, critics have labeled the reforms before Congress “socialized medicine.” Is this a fair accusation? Are President Obama and congressional Democrats really trying to impose socialized medicine on the United States? What is socialized medicine, anyway? Scholars with different perspectives on these questions will debate what relevance socialized medicine has to today’s health care reform debate.

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