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Call for Papers for a Session at the American Anthropological  Association 2011 Annual Meeting: Considering Health Reform in the U.S.November 16-20, 2011 Montreal, CanadaCo-chairs: Fayana Richards, Michigan State University; Julie Armin,  University of Arizona&#160;With the recent passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care  Act in the United States comes a variety of strategies for bringing  marginalized groups into to the public-private health care system. The  act will expand health care coverage to an additional 32 million  uninsured people with claims of reducing health disparities and  increasing the quality of health care. Scheduled to be implemented over  the next three years with a projected completion date in 2014, patients,  providers, and policy makers have already begun to experience the law's  effects. For this panel, we welcome papers that explore what it means to  "reform" health care in the United States. We hope to examine historical  efforts to reform health care, discursively analyze reform policies and  their ideological underpinnings, and explore the Patient Protection and  Affordable Care Act ethnographically.We seek to address: 1. patients, providers and policy makers' understandings of health care  reform and the effects of newly implemented policies; 2. historical efforts at reform, such as the implementation of public  programs or the increased application of managed care in health care  settings; 3. how the intersection of policies shape reform efforts (e.g. public  funding of abortions and the expansion of publicly funded insurance); and 4. neoliberal efforts to privatize state programs, including discussions  of the "individual mandate" and the Affordable Care Act's effects on  private industry growth.Please send your abstract (250 word maximum), as a Word attachment, to  Julie Armin (jarmin@email.arizona.edu) and Fayana Richards  (richa749@msu.edu) by March 20, 2011.