Upcoming Speaking Engagements

• Cannon in Portland, ME: On Monday, April 28, Cato Institute director of health policy studies Michael F. Cannon will speak at the Maine Heritage Policy Center. Time: 5:30-7:00pm. Location: Portland Country Club, 11 Foreside Road. More Information: Maine Heritage Policy Center.

• Tanner in Colorado Springs, CO: On Tuesday, April 29, Cato Institute senior fellow Michal D. Tanner will speak on the government?s role in America?s health care crisis at Limited Government Week 2008, co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Government and the Individual, the Colorado Springs Gazette, and the Limited Government Forum. Time: 10:00-11:30am. Location: Cheyenne Mountain Conference Resort, 3225 Broadmoor Valley Road. More Information: CSGI

• Hyman in New York: On Tuesday, April 29, Cato Institute adjunct scholar David A. Hyman will speak on a panel titled, ?Bridging the Gap: Affordable Health Care for New York?s Uninsured.? Time: 8:30am-2pm. Location: the University Club, One West 54th Street at Fifth Avenue. More Information: Manhattan Institute.

• Cannon in Washington, DC: On Wednesday, May 7 Cannon will participate in a panel discussing how our tax laws affect how health care is paid for and delivered. The panel is part of the Federalist Society?s upcoming conference, ?Our Nation?s Founding Principles and Tax Code ? Consistent or In Conflict??. Time: 9:30-10:45am. Location: National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor. More Information: The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.

• Cannon at World Congress Leadership Summit: On Thursday, May 15 Cannon will participate in the Opening Keynote Panel and sign copies of Healthy Competition: What?s Holding Back Healthcare and How to Free It (2nd Edition) at the 4th Annual World Congress Leadership Conference. Time: 8:15-9:30am (Keynote Panel) & 10:45-11:15am (Book Signing). Location: The Westin Alexandria, Alexandria, VA. More Information: World Congress.

Upcoming Cato Events

• ?Is The Grass Really Greener? A Look at National Health Care Systems Around the World?: On Monday, May 5, Cato Institute will host a Capitol Hill Briefing to present Michael Tanner?s Policy Analysis, ?The Grass Is Not Always Greener: A Look at National Health Care Systems Around the World.? Tanner will join distinguished panelists Regina Herzlinger, Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and Hugh Waters, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The briefing will take place on May 5 at 12:30pm in B-339 Rayburn House Office Building. Admission is free and lunch is served. If you plan to attend, we encourage you to pre-register at Cato.org.

• ?Whatever Happened to Medicare Reform??: On Thursday, May 15, Cato Institute will host a Policy Forum to examine the state of Medicare reform. The forum will feature Thomas R. Saving, a former Medicare trustee, and Stuart Guterman, senior program director for Program on Medicare?s Future at The Commonwealth Fund. The briefing will take place from 12:00pm to 1:00pm at the Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, DC. Admission is free and a reception follows. If you plan to attend, we encourage you to pre-register at Cato.org.

• Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness: On Thursday, May 1, Cato Institute will host a Book Forum to examine ?Libertarian Paternalism? and ?choice architecture? in individuals? health decisions, two concepts explored by authors Cass Sunstein, professor of law and political science at the University of Chicago Law School, and Terrence Chorvat, associate professor of law at George Mason University, in their new book Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness. The forum will take place from 12:00pm to 1:00pm at the Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, DC. Admission is free and a luncheon follows. If you plan to attend, we encourage you to pre-register at Cato.org.

A Massachusetts-style health insurance mandate is the wrong prescription for DC, says Michael D. Tanner in an April 20 Washington Post piece. Tanner writes that ?copying a policy that's already failing elsewhere is not the answer.?

Webcast of Michael Cannon Interview on Face to Face with Jon Ralston Is Now Available

A webcast is now available of Michael Cannon?s April 15 interview with Jon Ralston of the Las Vegas Sun. Cannon gives his take on the recent Hepatitis C outbreak in Las Vegas and why government regulation hurts, not helps, healthcare quality.