Health Care Expert Jacob Hacker to Detail How a Public Insurance Plan Could Work;...

Health Care Expert Jacob Hacker to Detail How a Public Insurance Plan Could
Work; New Report Explores 'Medicare-Like' Choice

New Report By Hacker Details How To Structure A Public Health Insurance Plan
That Guarantees Backup Coverage, Contains Costs, Competes With Private
Insurers

WASHINGTON, April 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Health care expert Jacob Hacker
will join Institute for America's Future co-director Roger Hickey to release
the first report to detail how the nation can structure and implement a public
health insurance option as part of overall health care reform. Hacker and
Hickey will hold a news conference in Washington on Wednesday to release and
discuss the report, jointly published by the Institute for America's Future
and the Center on Health, Economic and Family Security at U.C. Berkeley.

NEWS CONFERENCE TO RELEASE NEW REPORT THAT DETAILS
HOW THE NATION CAN STRUCTURE PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE OPTION

DATE: Wednesday, April 8, 2009

TIME: 12 noon ET

PLACE: Institute for America's Future Conference Room
1825 K Street, N.W., Suite 400,
Washington, D.C.

CALL-IN: 877-719-9795, code 2677344

PARTICIPANTS: Jacob Hacker, co-dir., Center on Health,
Economic and Family Security, U.C.
Berkeley School of Law
Roger Hickey, co-dir., Institute for America's
Future

SOURCE Institute for America's Future

Rachel Perrone, or Jennifer Ettinger, both of Institute for America's Future,
+1-202-587-1639