Health Care.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Health Care Program met in Cambridge on April 21. NBER Research Associate Dana P. Goldman of RAND organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Darius Lakdawalla, RAND and NBER, and Wesley Yin, University of Chicago and NBER, "Insurer Bargaining and Negotiated Pharmacy Drug Prices in Medicare Part D"

* Frank R. Lichtenberg, Columbia University and NBER, "The Quality of Medical Care, Behavioral Risk Factors, and Longevity Growth"

* Marianne P. Bider and Christopher Carpenter, University of California, Irvine and NBER, "Insurance Mandates and Mammography"

* Ashlesha Datar and Nancy Nicosia, RAND, "Junk Food in Schools and Childhood Obesity: Much Ado about Nothing ?"

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