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