Policy Forum 

# Would Universal Coverage Improve Health? 

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Date and Time 

March 25, 2010 4 - 6 PM EDT 

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Auditorium/Foyer 

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##### Featuring 

Featuring **John Z. Ayanian**, Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital; **David Meltzer**, Associate Professor of Medicine and Economics, University of Chicago; and **Michael F. Cannon**, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute. 

It makes intuitive sense that President Obama’s health plan, which would expand health insurance coverage to an estimated 30 million currently uninsured Americans, would improve their health. But is it true? What does the evidence say about the effect between health insurance expansions and health? And what does that mean for the Obama plan?

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