Sustainable U.S. Health Spending in the Next Administration
 
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Agenda


8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Welcome

Linc Smith
President, Altarum Institute


9:00 - 10:05 a.m. I. The Budget and Future Policy Landscape

Ceci Connolly
Managing Director, PwC Health Research Institute – Moderator

Douglas Holtz-Eakin President
President, American Action Forum

Jeff Goldsmith
National Advisor for Navigant Healthcare

Joseph Antos
Resident scholar and Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute

Gene Steuerle
Institute Fellow and the Richard B. Fischer Chair, Urban Institute


10:10 a.m. - 11:35 a.m. II. Health and Health Care Cost Factors

Melinda Buntin
Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University – Moderator

Amitabh Chandra
Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Kennedy School, Harvard University

Charles Roehrig
Founding Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending

Tom Getzen
Former Executive Director, International Health Economics Association


11:40 a.m. - 1:05 p.m. III. Increased Coverage, Reduced Costs, Greater Efficiency: The Outlook

Joanne Kenen
Health Editor, POLITICO – Moderator

Robert A. Berenson
Institute Fellow, Urban Institute

Ezekiel Emanuel
Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania

Katherine Baicker
C. Boyden Gray Professor of Health Economics, Chan School, Harvard University

Uwe Reinhardt
James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Princeton University


1:05 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch and Informal Discussions