Sustainable U.S. Health Spending: Serious Issues – Sound Policy Solutions
 
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Agenda


8:20 - 8:55 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Welcome

Katherine Hempstead
Senior Adviser to the Executive VP, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation


9:00 - 10:00 a.m. I. Government Budgets, Health Care Spending, and Policy Approaches

Ceci Connolly - Moderator
President & CEO
Alliance of Community Health Plans

Alice Rivlin
Senior Fellow, Center for Health Policy
Brookings Institution Economic Studies Program

Doug Elmendorf
Dean, Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy

Louise Sheiner
Robert Kerr Sr. Fellow in Economic Studies & Hutchins Center
Brookings Institution


10:05 - 11:25 a.m. II. New Perspectives on Health Care Cost Drivers

Elisabeth Rosenthal - Moderator & Rapporteur
Editor-in-Chief
Kaiser Health News

Peter Bach
Director, Center for Health Policy and Outcomes
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin
Professor and Chair
Vanderbilt University Department of Health Policy

Matthew Fiedler
Fellow, Center for Health Policy
Brookings Institution Economic Studies Program

Lauren Taylor
Harvard Business School
Co-Author, The American Health Care Paradox


11:30 - 12:50 p.m. III. Unsustainable Health Care Spending: Sound Policy Solutions

Joanne Kenen - Moderator & Provocateur
Executive Editor
Health Care, POLITICO

Jeff Goldsmith
President, Health Futures, Inc. and
National Advisor, Navigant Healthcare

Sherry Glied
Dean
New York University, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

Jonathan Skinner
Freedman Prof. in Economics
Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice

Katherine Hayes
Director of Health Policy
Bipartisan Policy Center


12:50 - 1:20 p.m. Lunch and Informal Discussion