Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Policy Primer - Health Care

This Policy Matters session will review the politics and history of health care reform system in the United States—culminating in the Affordable Care Act of 2009. Our discussion will touch upon the dimensions of health care reform, the legal challenges facing the law (likely to be resolved by the Supreme Court late this spring), and the challenges of implementing it at the state level.

Speakers for this session include:

• Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Director of the Iowa Department of Public Health

• Peter Damiano, Director of the Public Policy Center and professor at the UI Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry

• Colin Gordon, professor and chair of the UI History department