[URPE] Columbia University: Marie Gottschalk on Health Care - 15 May

[Matthew S Winters]

The Columbia University Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare and 
Equity (#613)

DATE: Monday 15 May - 7:15 p.m. - Faculty House at Columbia University
  (Optional buffet dinner at 6:00 p.m. at Faculty House)

SPEAKER: Marie Gottschalk, University of Pennsylvania

TOPIC: The Shadow Welfare State: Business, Labor, and the Future of
  Health-Care Reform

Over the past five years the shadow welfare state of job-based health and 
other benefits has been eroding at an accelerated pace.  Many have hailed 
the recent health-care legislation enacted by the state of Massachusetts 
as one of the most promising and innovative reforms in years.  Yet this 
legislation and other recent developments in the health-care debate 
underscore how far away the United States is from achieving affordable, 
universal, and comprehensive health care.  They also underscore the 
enormous political and other impediments to putting together a successful 
reform coalition and the low probability that mounting medical costs will 
prompt the business sector to be a key anchor of such a reform coalition.

Marie Gottschalk is currently associate professor of political science and 
Chair of the Political Science Graduate Program at Penn.  She specializes 
in American politics, public policy, political economy, criminal justice, 
and the development of the welfare state.  She is the author of "The 
Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in 
the United States." Her new book, "The Prison and the Gallows: The 
Politics of Mass Incarceration in America," will be published this month 
by Cambridge University Press. Marie Gottschalk has a Ph.D. in political 
science from Yale University.

RSVP to Matt Winters (msw22 at columbia.edu) by Friday 12 May.

Dinner is at 6:00 p.m. at Faculty House, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.  Enter via 
the gate on the east side of Broadway at 116TH STREET; go through campus 
and cross AMSTERDAM AVE.  Continue on West 116th past the Law School and 
turn left through the gate, turn right beyond Wein Hall on the right and 
go down the ramp to Faculty House.  Purchase a ticket for dinner ($23) at 
the ticket window on the first floor, and then the dinner buffet is in the 
DeWitt Clinton Dining Room on the fourth floor.

The seminar is at 7:15 p.m. in a room that will be announced in the 
Faculty House lobby.  Please look for a bulletin board posting.

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University Seminar on Full Employment #613

____ I will     ____ I will not attend the meeting on Monday 15 March.
____ I will     ____ I will not join the group for dinner ($23)

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The seminar on Full Employment is chaired by Helen Lachs Ginsburg, 
helenginsburg at yahoo.com, Sheila Collins, sheila.collins3 at verizon.net, and Trudy 
Goldberg, trudygoldberg at msn.com.