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Policy Forum

Think Bigger: Meaningful Health Reform

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Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC
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Featuring
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Brian Blase

President, Paragon Health Institute

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Robin Hanson

Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University

Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Health Law and Policy, Georgetown University Law Center; Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute

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Mark E. Miller

Executive Vice President of Health Care, Arnold Ventures

This will be a two-panel event.

A flood of government regulations, mandates, and subsidies has not solved the United States’ health care problems—they are the problem. They have driven the average employer-plan family premium to nearly $26,000—and then tossed families out of their health insurance when employees leave their jobs. Even as Obamacare creates an insurance shortage, it has nevertheless grown so unaffordable that enrollees earning $200,000 per year get $12,000 in subsidies. Growing federal debt threatens Medicare and Medicaid patients’ access to necessary care.

Reforms circulating on Capitol Hill are not up to the challenge. Some propose more regulations, mandates, and subsidies. Yet if that approach worked, it would have already. Even reforms that are directionally correct fall far short of what is necessary to restore individual rights and make health care more universal.

At this two-panel forum, leading health policy scholars will offer meaningful and potentially bipartisan reforms that would bring relief to struggling patients, workers, and taxpayers.

The first panel, “Who’s Afraid of Cutting Health Spending?” (9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.), will feature Michael Cannon, Robin Hanson, and Mark Miller. Panelists will discuss the many opportunities to eliminate excessive spending—opportunities that close observers of Medicare and Medicaid know about but the public does not.

The second panel, “Health Reforms That Meet the Need” (10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.), will feature Brian Blase, Michael Cannon, and David Hyman. Panelists will present reforms—including spending cuts—that would address the nation’s health care challenges in a meaningful way.

Join our panelists for an insightful discussion on this critical topic.

Lunch to follow.

Schedule

9:00 - 10:30 AM

Panel 1: Who’s Afraid of Cutting Health Spending?

Panel 1: Who’s Afraid of Cutting Health Spending
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      10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

      Panel 2: Health Reforms that Meet the Need

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