Tuesday, March 4, 2008
7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Registration and Information Desk Open
8:00 a.m. – 8:05 a.m.	Welcoming Remarks Speaker: George C. Halvorson, Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., and Hospital, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at America’s Health Insurance Plans
8:05 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.	General Session An Insider’s Perspectives on the Changing Political Landscape Moderator: Dan Leonard, Executive Vice President of Advocacy and Professional Services, America’s Health Insurance Plans Speaker: Chris Matthews, Host of Hardball with Chris Matthews, Author, and Commentator
8:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.	General Session Expanding Access to Health Insurance Coverage: Economists’ Perspectives Moderator-Speaker: Michael O’Grady, PhD, Principal of O’Grady Health Policy, LLC and former Assistant Secretary of Planning of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Speakers: Len Nichols, Director of Health Policy Programs, Urban Institute David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.	General Session Will Health Care as a 2008 Campaign Issue Become the Defining Policy Issue in 2009? Moderator-Speaker: Leonard E. Burman, PhD, Senior Fellow and Director of the Tax Policy Center, Urban Institute Speaker: Donna Brazile, Political Commentator and Chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Voting Rights Institute Michael Murphy, Republican Political Consultant, and Commentator for NBC’s Meet the Press and NPR’s All Things Considered
11:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Keynote Luncheon Address Challenge of Reforming the U. S. Health Care System Introducer: William Cameron, Chairman and CEO of American Fidelity Assurance Company, and Member of the Board of Directors at America’s Health Insurance Plans Moderator: Jeff Lemieux, Senior Vice President of the Center for Health Policy and Research, America’s Health Insurance Plans Speaker: Dan L. Crippen, PhD, Economist, Health Policy Expert, and former Director of the Congressional Budget Office
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.	General Session Ethical Dynamics of Innovations and Efficiency in 21st Century Health Care Moderator: Carmella Bocchino, Executive Vice President of Clinical Affairs and Strategic Planning, America’s Health Insurance Plans Speaker: Ezekiel Emanuel, Chair of the Department of Clinical Bioethics, Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health
2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.	General Session Health Care Cost Trends: How Much Can the U.S. Afford? Speaker: Paul B. Ginsburg, PhD, President, Center for Studying Health System Change
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.	General Session The Quest for Health Care Reform: Can Americans Accept Shared Responsibility? Moderator: Patricia A. Riley, Senior Vice President of Government Programs, BlueCross and BlueShield of Minnesota Speaker: Theodore R. Marmor, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management, and Political Science, School of Management, Yale University
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.	Conference Reception
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
7:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.	Registration and Information Desk Open
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.	General Session The Health Care Agenda for 2008: Perspectives from the Senate Speaker: The Honorable Ron Wyden, Member of the Finance Committee and the Special Committee on Aging, the U.S. Senate
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.	General Session The Health Care Agenda for 2008: Perspectives from the House Moderator: Beverly Allen, CEO, OmniCare Health Plan, Inc Speaker: The Honorable Dave Camp, Member, Ways and Means Committee, and Ranking Minority Member of the Ways and Means Committee Subcommittee on Health, The United States House of Representatives
9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.	General Session Labor Initiatives in Advancing Value-Driven Health Care Speaker: Andy Stern, President of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), CTW, CLC
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.	General Session Medicare and Medicaid Revisited: Enhancing Choices, Opportunities and Health Moderator: Darnell Dent, CEO, Community Health Plan of Washington Speakers: Bruce C. Vladeck, PhD, Senior Health Policy Advisor and Co-Director, Academic Medical Centers Service Line, Health Sciences Advisory Services, Ernst & Young LLP and former Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS) Gail Wilensky, PhD, Economist and Senior Fellow, Project Hope and Co-Chair of the Department of Defense Task Force on the Future of Military Health Care
12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.	Keynote Luncheon Address Making Tough Choices about Health Care Moderator: Carmella Bocchino, Executive Vice President of Clinical Affairs and Strategic Planning, America’s Health Insurance Plans Speaker: Mark D. Smith, MD, MBA, President and CEO, California HealthCare Foundation
1:30 p.m.	Adjournment

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