Session 1: The American Health Care Predicament

David Mechanic, Ph.D.
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research
Rutgers University

Session 2: American Health Care: The Problems of Access and Cost

Mark V. Pauly, Ph.D.
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania

Session 3: The Paradox of Plenty

Elliott S. Fisher, M.D., M.P.H.
Center for Health Policy Research and Clinical Practice
Dartmouth Medical School

Session 4: The Ethics of Newborn Screening

Council Discussion of Staff Working Paper

Session 5: Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President’s Council on Bioethics

A Panel Discussion

Jean Bethke Elshtain, Ph.D.
University of Chicago

Steven Pinker, Ph.D.
Harvard University

Eva Brann, Ph.D.
St. John’s College