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Conference Program
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8:00-9:00 a.m. Registration: Wintergarden
9:00-9:10 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
Tom Miller, Director, Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute

9:10-9:45 a.m. Keynote Address:
Rep. Dick Armey (R-Tex.)
House Majority Leader
Just Gotta Learn from the Wrong Things You Done (PDF, 17 pp, 36 kb)

9:45-11:00 a.m. Panel 1:
The Price of Portability Promises


Mark Pauly, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business
Regulations against Bad Things That Almost Never Happen, but Could

Mark Hall, Wake Forest University School of Law
Small Group Market Rating and Pooling

Conrad Meier, Heartland Institute
Affordability and Availability in the States

11:00-11:15 a.m. Break

11:15-12:15 p.m. Panel 2:
Health Privacy: the Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?


Moderator: Mary Grealy, Healthcare Leadership Council

Fred H. Cate, Indiana University School of Law
Principles for Protecting Privacy

Edith Marshall, Power, Pyles, Sutter & Verville

Jonathan Emord, Emord & Associates

12:15-1:00 p.m. Luncheon

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1:00-2:00 p.m. Luncheon Address
Richard Epstein, University of Chicago Law School
Reconciling Medical Research with Health Privacy

2:00-3:15 p.m. Panel 3:
Criminalization of Medical Practice


David A. Hyman, University of Maryland School of Law
Health Care Fraud and Abuse: Docs in the Dock

Madeleine Cosman, Medical Equity, Inc.
White Coat Crime

Grace-Marie Arnett, Galen Institute
The Bureaucratic Formula for Health Fraud, Complex Rules and Abuse of Physicians

3:15-3:30 p.m. Break

3:30-4:45 p.m. Panel 4:
Reassessing Incremental Health Regulation


Karl Polzer, George Washington University
Mapping the Regulatory Maze
HIPAA as a Regulatory Model: How Much Weight Can This "Federal Floor" Carry?
(PDF 21 pp., 76 kb)

Tom Miller, Cato Institute
A Competitive Federalism Bypass Operation

Greg Scandlen, National Center for Policy Analysis
HIPAA's Barriers to Health Insurance Innovation

4:45-5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks
Tom Miller, Cato Institute

5:00-6:00 p.m. Reception

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July 31, 2001
Cato Institute
Washington, D.C.
Fred H. Cate
Fred H. Cate
Indiana University
School of Law
Grace-Marie Turner
Grace-Marie Arnett
Galen Institute
Madeleine Cosman
Madeleine Cosman
Medical Equity, Inc.
David A. Hyman
David A. Hyman
University of Maryland
School of Law
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