Link to Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

I am sorry to say that I am having difficulty posting either or both of two items, which however are available on the Website of the Joint Center. The two items are the press release describing the new report from the Center, entitled "PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT OF 2010: ADVANCING HEALTH EQUITY FOR RACIALLY AND ETHNICALLY DIVERSE POPULATIONS". I shall keep trying to get the report from my computer onto our Health Disparities Blog. However, both are available on the Joint Center's website at www.jointcenter.org/hpi
The team of analysts who wrote this very important report include Dr. Dennis Andrulis, Nadia Siddiqui, Jonathon Purtle,and Dr. Lisa Duchon describe the new law as having "the potential to seed, promote and guide diversity initiatives in this country for decades to come". Dr. Andrulis notes the enormous potential for ultimately creating the necessary environment for our multi-cultural society to on an equal basis have access to necessary and basic health care. Getting thgere will require a series of steps, some budgetary in the future, some from the legislative branch of our government and others via Executive branch actions. Thus it is a wonderful report to have as the closing offering of this survey course on health disparities policy. The over-riding recommendation that stikes me regarding the question we posed at the beginning about whether or not we should not strongly recommend that the MLKjr Center for Health Equity continue with its plans for development of the first annual Health Equity Conference to be held in 2011. This report lays out many of the reasons and the parameters we shall use in following progress or regression in our national drive for the elimination of health disparities. So thank you to Ralph B. Everett (President and Ceo of the Joint Center) and Dr. Brian Smedley (Vice-President and Director of the Joint Center Health Policy Institute) for developing this important report. As Dr. Smedley said, "Going forward, policy-makers will have to make the reduction of health inequities a top priority in the implementation and administration of the new law, because doing so is essential to achieving its stated goals of expanding health insurance, improving the quality of health care, and reducing the costs of care."

Fw: Fwd: request from Roger Bulger

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From: dennis andrulis <dpandrulis@gmail.com>
To: Roger Bulger <roger.bulger@yahoo.com>
Sent: Mon, August 30, 2010 10:39:12 AM
Subject: Fwd: request from Roger Bulger

Roger:

 

Attached are the formal, final documents straight from the Joint Center should you wish to post part or all of the press release and the report.

Dennis

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kendall Alexander <kalexander@jointcenter.org>
Date: Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: request from Roger Bulger
To: dennis andrulis <dpandrulis@gmail.com>, Brian Smedley <bsmedley@jointcenter.org>

Hi Dennis,

I have attached PDFs of both the report and press release.  Let me know if you need anything else.

 

Best,

Kendall

 

Kendall Alexander
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Health Policy Institute
(202) 789 6374
kalexander@jointcenter.org

>>> Brian Smedley 8/30/2010 10:00:26 AM >>>

Hi Dennis, this is great - eager to see our friends help with dissemination.  Either option is fine with us.  I will ask Kendall Alexander (copied here) to send the pdf to you in case you don't have it.

Brian

>>> dennis andrulis <dpandrulis@gmail.com> 8/30/2010 9:52 AM >>>

Brian:

 

Roger Bulger wrote me about our report and is requesting either posting the entire report on the IAMMM blog or linking it to the Joint Center website. See his note below. He has also asked us to write or have him summarize the report. Do you have a preference re posting v. linking to your website? or other comments?

 

Dennis

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From: Roger Bulger <roger.bulger@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:17 AM
Subject: Re: new mailing address for you...even temporary
To: dennis andrulis <dpandrulis@gmail.com>

Dennis....I have read your report. It is wonderful and extremely valuable and sholuld be spread as far and wide as possible. I am delighted at your apparent association with my old school, the University of Texas School of Public Health (at Houston I presume). It was my personal #1 project when I was President of that Health Science Center from 1978-1988.

     We have two options re the blog. One is that I can insert from your email both the press release and the whole report. I have just learned, to my utter astonishment, by myself hoiw to do that from an email and have used that to add just last week two long pieces from John Geyman.

     Since you have already a gmail address, you can sign into the blog directly yourself and if you were willing, you could say two things: introduce both the press release and the entire report in your own words; and secondly, (making your work entirely relevant to being inserted in the tenth and final seminar),you could comment that the largest implication and action agenda of yout report is the need for continuing follow-up on progress or the opposite on all the points your report has identified for the reduction of health disparities and that you personally would welcome the opportunity to participate in such a review as IAMMM is proposing and planning on an annual basis to begin in 2011 around the time of the MLKjr Memorial Dedication one year hence. Follow-up would  involve using your report as one of the center pieces of such a conference, perhaps an entire half day or even perhaps a whole day. 
    I suggest you look at the blog and decide which path you prefer. If your prefer to have me do it, I can say the piece about the MLK conference. Either way is fine with me, but even if you don't want us to publish your report on the blog at all, I can insert a blog of my own about it and in any case, the future efforts are what I for sure want to be able to discuss with you particularly in the light of your new position.   

    The blog address is http://healthdp.blogspot.com/ Let me know your preferences...finishing this this week is first on my agenda, so make it easiest on yourself. But I don't want to add the report verbatim without your permission...if you don't want that, perhaps you could give me a link through which an interested reader can access the entire report.   Thanks again for doing this work....roger 

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From: dennis andrulis <dpandrulis@gmail.com>
To: Roger Bulger <roger.bulger@yahoo.com>
Sent: Fri, August 27, 2010 9:35:41 AM
Subject: Re: new mailing address for you...even temporary

Nice to hear from you Roger. We have just published our health care reform and disparities report which i have attached along with the Joint Center press release.i haven't posted something on your blog since it hadn't been completed but if you think the blog or some other vehicle might be worth a paragraph or two please let me know.

 

Hope you are well.

 

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On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Roger Bulger <roger.bulger@yahoo.com> wrote:

hi....hope all is well....have a book to send you...roger

Fw: new mailing address for you...even temporary

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: dennis andrulis <dpandrulis@gmail.com>
To: Roger Bulger <roger.bulger@yahoo.com>
Sent: Fri, August 27, 2010 9:35:41 AM
Subject: Re: new mailing address for you...even temporary

Nice to hear from you Roger. We have just published our health care reform and disparities report which i have attached along with the Joint Center press release.i haven't posted something on your blog since it hadn't been completed but if you think the blog or some other vehicle might be worth a paragraph or two please let me know.

 

Hope you are well.

 

address is: 4602 avenue G

austin, TX 78751

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Roger Bulger <roger.bulger@yahoo.com> wrote:

hi....hope all is well....have a book to send you...roger