Southwest Conference on Health Care Reform

On Tuesday, Sept. 16, more than one hundred health-care leaders convened in Tempe for the Southwest Conference on Health Care Reform. The conference, hosted by Mayo Clinic, Arizona State University and Project for Arizona's Future, included a diverse assembly of business, political and health care leaders from Arizona.

The goal of the conference was to raise awareness about the need for patient-centered reform, building on the work of several other symposiums and conferences held over the past two years by the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center. Participants discussed and compared the Policy Center's health care reform recommendations within the context of the regional health care issues that providers, payers, employers and patients throughout Arizona are facing. Health care reform is one of the top domestic policy issues as we move into the final stages of the 2008 presidential election.

Archived webcasts of each session are available:

Welcome and Introductions
Keynote Address: Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano
Overview of Health Policy Center Activities
Panel Discussion with Moderator Hugh Downs
Closing Session: Results of Small Group Discussion

Summary of Conference (PDF)