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May 28-29, 2001
Stockholm School of Economics
K.A. Wallenberg Room
Stockholm, Sweden
The Baylor-Stockholm School of Economics Conference
on Health Care Policy is an international and interdisciplinary forum for
interaction between scholars, health care professionals, industry executives,
and public policy makers. The conference is concerned with a broad range
of issues affecting health care delivery systems worldwide.
Anyone involved in health care management and
reform will find it useful to compare the private insurance model used
in the United States and the social insurance model used elsewhere in the
developed world. Sweden has long been considered a "model" country
because of its relative success in finding a middle ground between the
free market and government control of health care delivery. The United
States stands alone among developed countries in its strong reliance on
markets to organize the financing and delivery of health care.
Although their health care delivery systems are
quite different, the United States, Sweden, and many other countries are
confronted with a common list of challenges: caring for aging populations;
taking advantage of rapid advances in medical, biotechnical, pharmaceutical,
and communications technologies; maintaining sanitary, worker safety, and
environmental standards in a globalizing world; coping with ethical issues
related to biological research and health care delivery; and controlling
high and rising health-care expenditures.
To address these difficult problems most effectively,
we must learn to communicate and cooperate across boundaries of nationality,
profession, and discipline. This conference is designed to encourage that
kind of broad international collaboration. Welcome to Stockholm!
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