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Report: Broadband Acceleration Key to Health Cost Cuts, Boosting U.S. EconomyReport by Bob Litan to Outline "Staggering" Savings, Benefits From Stepped-up Broadband Deployment; Seen as "Missing National Priority" in Debates on How to Rein in Health Care Costs and Spark Economic Resurgence. WASHINGTON, D.C.//News Advisory//A major new report to be released on December 8, 2005 will detail how accelerated broadband deployment in the U.S. could deliver hundreds of billions of dollars to the economy in potential health care savings and other benefits for older Americans and people with disabilities. Authored by noted Kauffman Foundation and Brookings Institution scholar Bob Litan, the report from the New Millennium Research Council traces the potentially tremendous cost savings and higher national output that could result from wider introduction of cutting-edge broadband technologies for services such as telemedicine and telework. The report also estimates costs savings from expedited broadband in other health care, employment and independent living arenas. Litan will argue that the benefits are so great for the elderly and disabled -- as well as the entire U.S. economy -- that accelerated broadband should be made a much higher national priority than it is today. Litan will present the findings of his report during a luncheon speech. TO PARTICIPATE IN PERSON: Noon (lunch will be served), December 8, 2005, The Mayflower Hotel, Chinese Room, 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington. Please RSVP in advance by calling Nia Edwards at (202)263-2932. CAN'T PARTICIPATE IN PERSON?: A live, one-way audio feed from the news event will be available at noon ET at 1 (800) 860-2442. Ask for the "Litan broadband report" news event. A streaming audio recording of the news event will be available on the Web as of 8 p.m. ET on December 8th, at http://www.thenmrc.org. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Ailis Aaron, (703) 276-3265, or [email protected]. |