“America's Agenda: Health Care for All,” a roundtable discussion bringing together a group of U.S. leaders in business, labor, government and the health care sector who share an interest in solving America’s health care crisis, was presented April 7, 2009 at Madison’s Edgewater Hotel. The UW Law School co-sponsored the event.
            
America’s Agenda discussions are being held in ten locations across the country, with videotaped versions forthcoming for viewing online. The Madison event is the third in the series.

The April 7 summit in Madison was hosted by former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson '66, who served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Bush administration.

Participants included Dick Gephardt, former majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives; John Arensmeyer, CEO of Small Business Majority; Greg Boyce, CEO of Peabody Energy; U.S. Congressman Ron Kind of LaCrosse; Jeff Thompson, CEO of Gundersen Lutheran Health System; John Torinus, CEO of Serigraph, Inc.; Ken Thorpe, former deputy assistant HHS Secretary for Health Policy; and Kenneth B. Davis, Jr., Dean of the UW Law School. The moderator was John Harwood, Washington Bureau Chief of CNBC and a writer for the New York Times. 

Thompson told the audience that health care must be made more accessible to all Americans. “You have to be able to come up with a system where the uninsured and under-insured are able to have access to the system, and you have to find an equitable way to do it,” he said.

Additional information on the America’s Agenda summit meetings, is available at http://www.americasagenda.org/index.html .

  

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