Presented by:

In association with:

The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
of Rice University

The Greater Houston Partnership

The Texas Institute for
Health Policy Research

Generous financial support
provided by:

Underwriters 

 CHRISTUS Health

 Deloitte & Touche LLP

The Methodist Hospital

Platinum

Blue Cross and Blue Shield
of Texas

Texas Children's Hospital

Gold

Bank of America

Humana, Inc.

JP Morgan Chase

Marty Sutter/Essex
Woodlands Health Ventures

Memorial Hermann
Healthcare System

Sullivan Group

Transwestern Commercial Services

Vinson & Elkins, LLP

Corporate

Baylor College of Medicine,
Dept. of Pediatrics

BMC Software

Capgemini

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP

Healthcare Financial
Management Association,
Texas Gulf Coast Chapter

Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP

Texas Medical Center

Whether you're a consumer, a provider, an employer, or in government, healthcare is one of the most important issues we face today.

�  Private health insurance premiums are soaring and the ranks of the uninsured continue to grow.

�  Employers strain to pay employee health benefits.

�  Employees face ever increasing deductibles and copayments.

�  Emergency rooms are overcrowded and severely stressed.

�  Hospitals and physicians struggle to stay in business.

�  Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance are barely
solvent, if at all.

If these topics concern you or your business, please join us for an interactive discussion of the issues and policies that affect the future of health care.

No one is happy with the status quo, but there is no clear consensus on how to proceed from here. At this conference, we will ask the tough questions:

�  Is health care a right or a privilege?

�  What can we do, working together, to find new answers
to health delivery challenges?

Friday, October 15, 2004  - 7:30 am-5:00 pm
Hyatt Regency Hotel, 1200 Louisiana Street
Houston, Texas
www.texaslyceum.org

Speakers Include *:

�  U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, M.D.

�  Texas Commissioner of Health Eduardo J. Sanchez, M.D.

�  Houston Mayor Bill White

�  Harris County Judge Robert Eckels

�  U.S. Representative Kay Granger

�  Texas State Representative John Davis

�  Ken Shine, M.D. - Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs,
The University of Texas System

�  Ralph Feigin, M.D. - Physician-in-Chief, Texas Children's Hospital and
Chairman, Baylor College of Medicine, Dept. of Pediatrics

�  Vivian Ho, Ph.D. - James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics/Baylor College of Medicine

�  John C. Goodman, Ph.D. - President, National Center for Public Policy Analysis

�  Larry McCullough - Center for Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine

�  Dick Lavine, J.D. - Senior Fiscal Analyst, Center for Public Policy Priorities

�  Camille Miller - President/CEO, Shared Vision Project
Texas Institute for Health Policy Research

�  Joseph Antos - American Enterprise Institute

�  Paul Hobby - Founding Partner, Genesis Park, LP

�  Jack Hadley, Ph.D. - The Urban Institute's Health Policy Center

�  Marty Sutter - Managing Director, Essex Woodlands Health Ventures

�  Gary Laugharn - Hewitt Associates

Space is Limited: Register early to attend this important program. For more information, a detailed agenda and registration, visit the Texas Lyceum website.

Survey Technology will gather real-time feedback from participants regarding presented topics - and provide a forum for discussion of that feedback during the afternoon.

* List of participants is preliminary at this time and may change prior to October 15.