Charles P. Taft Research Center Lecture: Expanding Health Coverage Feb. 24
The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center and the UC Department of Economics are co-sponsoring a public policy and research lecture at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24 in 608 Carl H. Lindner Hall, College of Business on UC's West Campus.
Thomas DeLeire, Director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will discuss expansion of health insurance coverage to low-income childless adults and how this expansion affects the utilization of health care resources in this population.
DeLeire is a prolific researcher in labor and health economics as they intersect with public policy. He has served as a senior analyst at the Congressional Budget Office and a senior economist for the Council of Economic Advisers.
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