2003 National Health Policy Conference 1/22/2003
AcademyHealth and Health Affairs, Washington, D.C.
Conference provides an in-depth look at the nation's health policy agenda for the year ahead. Federal and state officials, members of Congress, and industry leaders debate major health policy issues and propose solutions to the challenges on the horizon, including rising health care costs, the growing number of uninsured Americans, the threat of terrorism, and the opportunity to improve health care quality.
Welcome and "Bush Administration's Health Policy Agenda" (01/22/03)
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Key officials address the Bush Administration's 2003 health policy agenda.
Speakers: Thomas Scully, CMS; and Mark McClellan, FDA.
"Trends in Health Care" (01/22/03)
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Leonard Schaeffer, chairman and CEO of WellPoint Health Networks, one the nation's largest health insurers, discusses the major health care trends and how they're reshaping health care.
"Medicare Modernization" (01/22/03)
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This panel discusses incremental improvements to the Medicare program that can achieve bipartisan support in the areas of governance, administration, benefits, and coverage and payment policies.
Moderator: Bob Berenson, AcademyHealth.
Speakers: Kathy King, director of Health Security Policy of NASI; Nancy-Ann DeParle, former HCFA Administrator;
Glenn Hackbarth, MedPAC.
"Congressional Health Policy Agenda" (01/23/03)
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Speaker: Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.)
Panel:
Senior Congressional Health Staff
Debbie Curtis, Office of Rep. Stark (D-Calif.); Elizabeth Fowler, Senate Finance Committee;
Dean Rosen, Public Health Subcommittee; Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions;
John McManus, Health Subcommittee, House Ways & Means.
Speaker: Senator John Breaux (D-La.)
Excerpt of Universal Health Care coverage speech from Senator John Breaux (D-La.)
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Senator John Breaux (D-La.)unveils his universal coverage plan.
"Luncheon Plenary: Political Commentary" (01/23/03)
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With the results of the 2002 mid-term elections decided, Thomas Mann, Brookings Institution, and Norm Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute, comment on key health policy issues for the 108th Congress.
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