title: Examining the range of health care reform. University of Pittsburgh Task Force on Health Care Financing.
abstract: On December 16, 1991, Senator Harris Wofford invited the president of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to convene a group of its leaders for a roundtable discussion of health care issues. At that meeting, J. Dennis O'Connor, Ph.D., chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, offered to appoint a multidisciplinary group of people from western Pennsylvania to collect data to analyze future policy options relative to health care and make its findings available to the senator, other legislators, and health policy makers. The chancellor invited representatives from the community, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and other academic and health care institutions in the area to participate in the analytical process. The task force met frequently over a 10-month period to develop a report, a portion of which is excerpted here.
mesh_terms: D006291:Health Policy; D007348:Insurance, Health; D014481:United States