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<div>From Andrea Santos - HST.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica">Dear Biology
majors,</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica">Welcome to the
spring semester (well, almost!). Please plan to join us for the first
BioMatrix program of this term:</font></blockquote>
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face="Verdana"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica"
size="+2"><b>Healthcare: Who Pays?</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica">Tuesday, February
12, 2008</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica">Fourth floor,
Stata Center (</font><a
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32&Buildings=go"><font
face="Helvetica" color="#000BEE"><u>See map</u></font></a><font
face="Helvetica" color="#003FF9"><u>)</u></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica">Free parking is
available after 4:00 p.m. in the East lot (</font><a
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=P5&Parking=go"><font
face="Helvetica" color="#000BEE"><u>See map</u></font></a><font
face="Helvetica">)</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica"
size="+1"><b>5:00-6:00 PM: Mentor Mixer (R&D
Pub)</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica"
size="+1"><b>6:00-8:00 PM: Program (R&D
Commons)</b></font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica">Debates about
payment for health care are especially prominent during this election
year and many solutions have been proposed. Join us for a discussion
about the ethical issues surrounding healthcare economics. Our guests
include ethicist Dan Brock, Professor of Medical Ethics and Director
of the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, who will
frame the main ethical issues; and panelists Valerie Bassett, Director
of Policy and Research for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Foundation, and Harvey Sapolsky, Professor of Public Policy and
Organization at MIT, who will present their views on health care
policy.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica">Reading material
and more information on the participants are available at the
BioMatrix website.<font size="+1"><b> RSVP by Monday, February
4</b></font> on the website,</font> <a
href="https://biomatrix.mit.edu:8443/"><font face="Helvetica"
color="#003AE3">https://biomatrix.mit.edu:8443</font></a><font
face="Helvetica" color="#002EAF">/</font><font face="Helvetica"> if
you have set up a member profile. To establish a website account and
have access to the profile page, contact Andrea Santo at</font> <a
href="mailto:%20asanto@mit.edu"><font face="Helvetica"
color="#0009EE"><u>asanto@mit.edu</u></font></a><font
face="Helvetica">.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica">Thanks, and we
look forward to seeing you!</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Helvetica">Regards,</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Andrea</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica">P.S. Save the date
-- our next dinner will take place on Tuesday, March 11, at the Stata
Center.</font></blockquote>
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cite>____________________________________</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Andrea Santo</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and
Technology</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>77 Massachusetts Ave,
E25-518</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Cambridge, MA 02139</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>(617) 258-7084* <a
href="">asanto@mit.edu</a>* <a
href="http://hst.mit.edu">hst.mit.edu</a></blockquote>
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