U.S. official to discuss health law’s benefits for students

March 19, 2012 | Events, UToday
By Staff



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Dr. Carolyn M. Clancy, director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, will talk to UT students Tuesday, March 20, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Toledo Hilton on Health Science Campus.

She will speak at a forum organized by Voices for Ohio’s Children and faculty of The University of Toledo about the Affordable Care Act passed by Congress two years ago and offer her views on the benefits of the law as it relates to students being able to stay on their parents’ health insurance plan up to age 26.

Clancy, a general internist and health services researcher, is a graduate of Boston College and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Following clinical training in internal medicine, she was a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in 1990, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia.

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