Altarum Institute Health Policy Roundtable

Agenda

8:30 a.m.	*Continental Breakfast and Welcome* Lincoln Smith President and Chief Executive Officer, Altarum Institute Ceci Connolly Managing Director, PwC Health Research Institute – Moderator
9:00 a.m.	*I. Federal Budgets, Deficits and Health Care* Maya MacGuineas President, Committee for Responsible Federal Budget – Presenter Hon. David M. Walker Founder and CEO, Comeback America Initiative; Former Comptroller General of the U.S. – Presenter
9:50 a.m.	*II. What Health Spending Trends Can Be Discerned in the Public & Private Sectors?* Stephen Zuckerman Health Policy Center of the Urban Institute – Presenter Chapin White Senior Researcher, Center for Studying Health System Change – Discussant
10:55 a.m.	*III. A New Basis for Forecasting Long-Term Health Spending: Federal Budget Implications* Gene Steuerle Richard B. Fisher Chair & Fellow, Urban Institute – Presenter Charles Roehrig Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending – Presenter Thomas Getzen Emeritus Professor of Risk, Insurance & Health Mgmt, Temple Univ. - Presenter Joanne Kenen Health Editor, POLITICO – Moderator
11:50 a.m.	*IV. Roundtable: Are We On a Sustainable Path? What Factors are Most Relevant?* Uwe Reinhardt James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Princeton University David Cutler Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University John Holahan Institute Fellow, Health Policy Center, Urban Institute Joanne Kenen Health Editor, POLITICO – Moderator
12:45 p.m.	*Lunch and Informal Discussions*