Healthcare Investment & Transaction Summit, New York City - Early Bird Ends This Friday, December 11

IIR’s Healthcare Investment & Transaction Summit (HITS), now taking place on January 28-29, 2010 in New York City, is the deal-making industry event of the year! Join us today and be one of the many to benefit from the year’s most prestigious healthcare deal-making event. HITS brings together the industry’s financial giants, with buyers and sellers, and the brokers who connect them and the bankers to subsidize their deals. Deals are happening in healthcare, and those with creativity, patience, and capital are benefiting from the current economy. There is no doubt the time to act is upon us, and the place to hit the deal out of the park is HITS 2010!

Gain access to industry thought leaders, including:

AMBIENT HEALTHCARE INDIANA ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL
AMERICAN HOSPICE INGENIX CONSULTING (United Healthcare)
APAX PARTNERS JRG VENTURES
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF LINDEN LLC
CAMDEN PARTNERS MONROE CARELL JR. CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
CAPITAL BLUECROSS NASHVILLE HEALTH CARE COUNCIL
CMS NATIONAL RENAL ALLIANCE
CITI ODYSSEY HEALTHCARE
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES PASSPORT HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
EXPERIAN PROSKAUER ROSE LLP
FAULTLINE VENTURES REHABCARE
GE CAPITAL RIVERSIDE PARTNERS
GENERAL ATLANTIC LLC SHATTUCK HAMMOND
GENERAL ATLANTIC PARTNERS SIGNATURE HOSPITAL CORPORATION
GOLDMAN SACHS SPECTRUM EQUITY INVESTORS
GREAT HILL PARTNERS STROUDWATER ASSOCIATES
HEALTH EVOLUTION PARTNERS BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF TENNESSEE (BCBST)
HOSPICE COMPASSUS THE CARLYLE GROUP
HOULIHAN LOKEY

Download the brochure and take a look at the all-star speaker list and agenda featuring this year’s most prominent industry issues! Visit our website for further program details at www.healthcaredealsummit.com.

Plus, be sure to register by this Friday, December 11, to save $200 off the standard rate!

We hope to see you in January in New York City!

Health care reform: Private Insurers paying for federal lobbying

A recent article written by Zenei Cortez at the California Progress Report looks at how the current finances in the health care industry are being geared towards federal lobbying. In fact, the article state that the nation's top 13 private health insurers and their trade group, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) spent nearly $23 million in federal lobbying to tilt reform in their direction. Cortez believes that the insurance industry is spending money that will go on to harm the American public in terms of higher profit for the private insurance companies while affecting the quality of care Americans receive due to the prices of health insurance. Do you agree with this article?

What do you foresee happening to the financial aspects of healthcare reform in terms of both the insured and the healthcare companies?