Précis

With historically slow growth in health expenditures likely behind us, the challenge will be to expand the coverage achieved by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, while avoiding burdensome long-term fiscal deficits that result from excess health care growth. We invite you to attend this fourth Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded symposium coming just after the Supreme Court King vs. Burwell ruling. It will provide an update on health politics, discuss health care reform issues such as new payment models, analyze associated cost factors, and peer into the future health spending trends.

Presenters include:

• Henry Aaron, Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution


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


• Ceci Connolly, Managing Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Health Research Institute


• Richard Frank, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services


• Zack Cooper, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and of Economics, Yale University


• Martin Gaynor, E.J. Barone Professor of Economics and Health Policy at Carnegie Mellon University


• Lisa Grabert, Professional Staff Member, House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee


• David Grabowski, Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard University


• Amy Hall, Democratic Staff Director for the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee


• Katherine Hempstead, Director - RWJF Coverage Team


• Elizabeth Jurinka, Chief Health Policy Advisor, Senate Finance Committee


• Joanne Kenen, Health Editor, POLITICO


• Mark McClellan, Director, Health Care Innovation and Value Initiative, Brookings Institution


• Anne Montgomery. Senior Policy Analyst, Altarum Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness


• Len Nichols, Director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, George Mason University


• Charles Roehrig, Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending


• Louise Sheiner, Director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Brookings Institution


• Ben Sommers, Assistant Professor of Health Policy, Economics, and Medicine, Harvard University


• Jay Sulzmann, Legislative Director, U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson

 

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