National Health Care Reform: Tackling the Affordability Crisis

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When

Fri, Oct. 13, 2023

8 am - 1:30 pm

(GMT-05:00) America/Chicago

Where

James A. Baker III Hall

Americans are facing an affordability crisis when it comes to health care. As U.S. health care costs soar, more people than ever before are at risk of not being able to pay the price. What factors are driving these unsustainable costs, and what can policymakers do to make health care more affordable?

At this event, four leading health economists will discuss recent and potential policies to increase provider price transparency, lower drug costs and reform health insurance markets.

This event is sponsored by the Baker Institute Center for Health and Biosciences. Follow @BakerInstitute on Twitter, and join the conversation with #BakerLive.

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Agenda

8:00 am	Breakfast
8:30 am	Opening Remarks Vivian Ho, Ph.D. James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics, Baker Institute
8:35 am	Health Care Reform: The Next Stage Jonathan Gruber, Ph.D. Ford Professor of Economics; Chairman, Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:35 am	Smart Health Plan Designs for Improving Affordability Elena Prager, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Simon Business School, University of Rochester
10:35 am	Break
10:55 am	Price Transparency in the U.S. Health Care System: Potential Benefits and Realistic Expectations Chris Whaley, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University; health economist at the RAND corporation
11:55 am	Lunch
12:20 pm	Medication Affordability and Progress on Lowering Drug Prices in the United States Stacie Dusetzina, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Health Policy; Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
1:20 pm	Closing Remarks Vivian Ho, Ph.D. James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics, Baker Institute