Transformative Change: Market-Driven Health Care

U. S. Chamber of Commerce
American Medical Association
National Center for Policy Analysis
Galen Institute

8:00 am -- 8:30 am -- Continental Breakfast

8:30 am -- 9:30 am

A New Paradigm for Employers - Exploring new thinking in the employer community about managing health benefits, controlling costs, and ensuring quality and employee satisfaction. Examining policy initiatives that will facilitate that change.

Speakers:

• Ken Berkowitz (Manager, Pricewaterhouse Coopers)
• Thomas Jackson (Senior Fellow, Institute for SocioEconomic Studies)
• Kate Sullivan (Director, Health Care Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce) Moderator

Promises in the Pipeline - The impact of the information revolution on creative financing and delivery of health care. A glimpse of the possibilities as health care research evolves to create the next generation of medical miracles.

Speakers:

• Howard Wizig (Chairman, Vivius)
• Sandy Lutz (Healthcare Research Director, Pricewaterhouse Coopers)
• Karen Williams (President, National Pharmaceutical Council)
• Daniel H. Johnson, Jr., M.D., (Former President of the American Medical Association and Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation) Moderator

10:45 am -- 12:00 pm

The Dynamics of a Consumer-Oriented Health System- Opportunities, promises and challenges. We will explore how the market can deal with adverse selection, pooling, risk-based rating, etc.; how risk pools can be structured to maximize choice and efficiency; and how the market would change with a flood of new purchasers.

Speakers:

• Walton Francis (President, Public Policy Network)
• Dave Ogden (Consulting Actuary, Milliman and Robertson)
• Ken Linde (President and CEO, Destiny Health)
• John Hoff (Health care attorney and Galen Institute trustee)
• Greg Scandlen (Senior Fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis) Moderator

What happens if we stay on the current path?

Tom Scully, HCFA Administrator-designate as possible speaker. [Invited]

1:45 pm - 3:00 pm

Tax Policy and the 107th Congress - The prospects for tax credits for the uninsured, deductibility of individual health insurance premiums, MSA expansion, rollover of Flexible Spending Accounts, etc.

Speakers:

• Sally Canfield (Counselor to the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services)
• Dean Rosen (Staff Director, Senate HELP Committee)
• Diane Rowland (Executive Vice President, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Jack Strayer (Vice President, External Affairs, National Center for Policy Analysis) Moderator

20/20 in 2020: A vision for a consumer-driven health system. Where does transformative change take us? Moving beyond the year-to-year political and budget debate to explore how market-based policy changes could change the health sector.

Speakers:

• Jesse Hixson (Principal Economist, American Medical Association)
• Stuart Butler (Vice President, The Heritage Foundation)
• Jeff Lemieux (Senior Fellow, Progressive Policy Institute)
• Gary Ahlquist (Vice President, Booz-Allen & Hamilton)
• Grace-Marie Turner (President, Galen Institute) Moderator