After this session, you will be able to:

Make sense of the rhetoric that comes out of Washington.

Gain an awareness of how big a problem the federal deficit is and how much digging the healthcare financial manager will have to do to find his or her way out of the today's federal hole.

Understand the important role you will have in "saving" the U.S. healthcare system over the next several years.

Implement strategies to make sure your organization survives the changes that will be taking place in health care.