Name: National Health Care Reform: Policy Challenges in the Trump Era
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Location: James A. Baker III Hall

On Oct. 24, we hosted our ninth biennial National Healthcare Reform Conference, featuring four leading health economists — Michael Chernew, Rena Conti, Ben Handel, and Julie Zissimopoulos — who examined the future of U.S. health policy under the Trump administration. The discussion covered recent and potential reforms in Medicare, Medicaid, employer-sponsored insurance and prescription drug pricing, with attention to the economic and social implications of these changes.

This event brought together experts to provide evidence-based analysis of one of the most pressing issues facing the nation: how to deliver high-quality, accessible and affordable health care. Attendees gained insights into the challenges health care workers and policymakers face in balancing costs, access and innovation at a time of federal health restructuring and cuts.

It was free and open to the public. Breakfast and lunch were provided.

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Agenda

8:00 am	Light Breakfast
8:30 am	Opening Remarks Vivian Ho, Ph.D. James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics, Baker Institute Heidi Russell, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Center for Health Policy, L.E. and Virginia Simmons Senior Fellow in Health Policy, Huffington Fellow in Child Health Policy, Baker Institute
8:40 am	Speaker Remark I Michael Chernew, Ph.D. Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Director, Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab, Harvard Medical School
9:40 am	Speaker Remarks II Ben Handel, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley; Co-director, The Gilbert Center, UC Berkeley; Co-director, National Bureau of Economic Research Insurance Working Group
10:40 am	Break
11:00 am	Speaker Remarks III Rena Conti Ph.D. Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy, and Law; Co-director, Technology Policy and Research Institute and Life Sciences; Co-lead, Mehrotra Institute for Business Markets and Society, Boston University Questrom School of Business
12:00 pm	Lunch
12:25 pm	Speaker Remarks IV Julie Zissimopoulos, Ph.D. Professor, Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Co-Director, Aging and Cognition Program, USC Schaeffer Center, University of Southern California
1:25 pm	Closing Remarks Vivian Ho, Ph.D. Baker Institute