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unusual facts about health care reform



Barack Obama speech to joint session of Congress, September 2009

United States President Barack Obama discussed his plan for health care reform in a speech delivered to a joint session of the 111th United States Congress on September 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM (EDT).

Green Bay Southwest High School

Southwest High School was the site of a visit by U.S. president Barack Obama on June 11, 2009, who led a town hall meeting about health care reform.

Kevin Galvin

Galvin participated in the national health care reform debate that culminated in the passage and signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in March 2010.


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Anti-boycott

When Whole Foods Market was boycotted because the CEO opposed U.S. President Barack Obama's health care reform policies, opponents of health care reform staged nationwide Buycotts.

Bagher Larijani

Medical Policy Council of Islamic Azad University is established in 2013 with the main objecitive of development a comprehensive strategic plan for the University based on the two main national reform plans, namely Comprehensive Health Care Reform Map and the Comprehensive Scientific Map of Islamic Republic of Iran.

Blue-ribbon panel

Recent examples of high-level so-called blue-ribbon panels in the United States would be the Warren Commission investigating the Kennedy Assassination, the 9/11 Commission investigating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Iraq Study Group assessing the Iraq War and the Clinton Administration's White House Task Force on National Health Care Reform.

Kevin Galvin

In August 2009 Galvin hosted Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Small Business Administration Administrator Karen Mills, Senator Chris Dodd and Representative Rosa DeLauro at his Connecticut Commercial Maintenance shop facility for a discussion of health care reform and business.

Mautner Project

In September 2009, Mautner Project was asked by the White House to send a client to sit with First Lady Michelle Obama during President Barack Obama's September 9 address to a joint session of Congress regarding health care reform.

Michael Porter

His New England Journal of Medicine research article, "A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System" (July 2009), lays out a health reform strategy for the U.S. His work on health care is being extended to address the problems of health care delivery in developing countries, in collaboration with Dr. Jim Yong Kim and the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health.