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COVERED: a week-by-week look at the political and legislative developments that led to the creation of Medicare and Medicaid 50 years ago. Bob Rosenblatt, Academy senior fellow and former Los Angeles Times Washington correspondent will report on the people and the maneuvers that led to this major expansion of social insurance.
2015 Conference Presentations
Below are links to download the PowerPoint slides that presenters used during "Medicare and Medicaid at 50: The Next 50 Years." Please note that if there is no link, it means the speakers did not use slides.
9:00 AM Interest Groups
- Income Security Policy: Retirement Income at Home and Abroad
- Health Policy: Persistent Barriers to Reform of the American Health Care System
2:30 PM Pre-conference Roundtable Sessions
- Integrated Care: Breaking Down the Workers Compensation and General Health Care Silos
- Health Insurance Exchanges – What Have We Learned?
- Supporting Work: Strategies to Boost Employment for People with Disabilities
- Unemployment Insurance Benefits, Financing, and Reemployment Services after the Great Recession
- The Link Between Retirement Security and Long-Term Care
5:30 PM Keynote
- Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton University on Social Insurance, Health Policy and the Next 50 Years
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015
8:30 AM Opening and Welcome: G. Lawrence Atkins, National Academy of Social Insurance
8:35 AM Session I: Medicare’s First 50 Years
- Stuart Guterman, The Commonwealth Fund, An Overview of Medicare’s Accomplishments
- Gerard Anderson, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Medicare Provider Payment Reform
- Lauren Nicholas, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Improving Chronic Care and Long-Term Care in Medicare
- Cathy Schoen, Commonwealth Fund Health Cost Initiative, Simplifying and Enhancing Access and Affordablity for Medicare's Low-Income Beneficiaries [Note: Estimates in this presentation are preliminary.]
- Moderator: Karen Davis, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Medicare at 50
9:50 AM Break
10:00 AM Session II: The Changing Face of American Health and Health Care
- Jennifer Ortman, Population Projections Branch, Our Aging Nation
- Marilyn Moon, Center on Aging Director, American Institutes for Research, Engaging Future Medicare and Medicaid Consumers
- Jennie Chin Hansen, American Geriatrics Society, Changing Health Care Workforce
- Moderator: Susan Dentzer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
11:50 AM A Conversation with Dr. Patrick Conway, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
12:40 PM Session III: The Coming Conflict Between Scientific Breakthroughs & Cost
- Lewis G. Sandy, M.D., Executive Vice President, Clinical Advancement, UnitedHealth Group, We Can Afford to Innovate! The Role of Big Data
- Richard J. Hodes, M.D., Director, National Institute on Aging, The Impact of Alzheimer’s Disease
- Michael K. Gusmano, The Hastings Center, Technology and Cost: The Ethics of Health Technology Assessment
- Moderator: Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News
1:45 PM Session IV: Looking Behind Payment & Delivery Reform
- Thomas Lee, M.D., Press-Ganey, A New Marketplace Emerges
- Richard Baron, M.D. American Board of Internal Medicine and ABIM Foundation, Getting the Idea: Activating Medical Professionalism for High Value Care
- Suzanne Delbanco, Catalyst for Payment Reform, Looking Beyond Professionalism for High Value Care
- Moderator: Julian Harris, M.D., Office of Management and Budget
[Note: This session was not recorded.]
2:55 PM Break: Visit Exhibit Lounge for refreshments and more
3:10 PM Session V: Coverage Over the Life Span
- Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Moving Towards Universal Medicare
- Sherry Glied, Wagner School of Public Service, New York University, Fragmentation and Integration in U.S. Health Coverage Financing
- Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum, Improving Health Insurance Exchanges as a Choice to All
- Moderator: Renée Landers, Suffolk University Law School
4:30 PM Session VI: Medicare and Medicaid for the Next 50 Years: Insights from the Top
Susan Dentzer interviews CMS Administrators about the future of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Interviewees include:
- Leonard D. Schaeffer, University of Southern California
- Thomas A. Scully, Alston & Bird, LLP
- Bruce C. Vladeck, Nexera Inc.
- Gail Wilensky, Project HOPE
5:20 PM Conference Adjournment
