MEDIA ADVISORY

DATE: 8:35-9:45 a.m. Nov. 16, 2011 (conference lasts all day).

EVENT: Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle will deliver the keynote address at a University of Michigan symposium on “The State of Value-Based Insurance Design.”

He will also be available to talk to media after his presentation. Media should RSVP to Laura Bailey at (734) 764-1552 or [email protected].

The Center for Value-Based Insurance Design, housed at the U-M School of Public Health, is a leader in developing and communicating value-based design insurance and played a pivotal role in its inclusion in national health care reform legislation, as well as in numerous state initiatives. Value-based insurance design is the concept of aligning patients’ out-of-pocket costs, such as co-pays and premiums, with the value of health services

Daschle is the author of “Getting it Done: How Obama and Congress Finally Broke the Stalemate to Make Way for Health Care Reform.” His talk, which will include remarks by U-M President Mary Sue Coleman and School of Public Health Dean Martin Philbert, is the centerpiece of the 2011 symposium of the U-M Center for Value-Based Insurance Design.

Daschle, who left the Senate in 2005, is now a senior policy adviser to the law firm of DLA Piper. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978 and served four terms. In 1986, he was elected to the U.S. Senate and became minority leader in 1994. Daschle was one of the longest-serving Senate Democratic leaders in history.

PLACE: U-M North Campus Research Complex Dining Hall, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor.

SYMPOSIUM AGENDA: www.sph.umich.edu/vbidcenter/11symposium/agenda.html

SYMPOSIUM DETAILS: www.sph.umich.edu/vbidcenter/11symposium/index.html