ADVISORY/New Poll Shows High Intensity for Helping Uninsured Americans.Feature Editors/Health & Medical Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday Tuesday: see week. (Nov. 14) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Conference Call to Brief Reporters; Bipartisan Research Team Reports Specifically On Mississippi Mississippi, state, United States Mississippi (mĭs'əsĭp`ē), one of the Deep South states of the United States. It is bordered by Alabama (E), the Gulf of Mexico (S), Arkansas and Louisiana, with most of the border formed by , Tennessee Tennessee, state, United States Tennessee (tĕn`əsē', tĕn'əsē`), state in the south-central United States. WHAT: A post-election opinion poll surveying residents of both Mississippi and Tennessee about the issue of the uninsured and access to affordable health care coverage will be released jointly by a bipartisan team of national polling firms -- Public Opinion Strategies and Lake Snell Perry & Associates. The poll provides up-to-date information on the views of Tennesseans and Mississippians about the problem of the uninsured, their interest in addressing the problem, and their perceptions about impediments to addressing this issue. The poll will be released Wednesday, November 15, in Memphis at Health Coverage 2000: Meeting the Challenge of the Uninsured - a regional conference on the uninsured sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The conference brings together national and local groups that are usually on opposite sides of health policy debates, but who agree that action for the uninsured must be a top priority. Co-sponsors include the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, American Nurses Association, Catholic Health Association of the United States, Families USA, Health Insurance Association of America, Service Employees International Union of the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. WHEN: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. CST CALL-IN NUMBER (800) 417-3187, participant code No. 139652 PARTICIPANTS: -- Pollsters Bill McInturff (Public Opinion Strategies) and Celinda Lake (Lake Snell Perry & Assoc.) -- Stuart Schear; The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- Ronald F. Pollack; Executive Director, Families USA -- Charles N. Kahn III; President, Health Insurance Association of America EMBARGO: All survey results are embargoed Embargoed is a UK based human rights organisation campaigning to bring an immediate and unconditional end to all embargoes against the people of Northern Cyprus. Embargoed does not proscribe any political remedy, but considers the embargoes on the people of Northern Cyprus to be until 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday Wednesday: see week. , November November: see month. 15. For survey results or information, call Shelley Durfee at (901) 818-0008. |
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