American Health Coverage at a Crossroads

February 1-2, 2007

PowerPoint presentations made during Session IV, “American Health Coverage at a Crossroads,” at NASI’s 19th Annual Conference, For the Common Good: What Role for Social Insurance?

Moderator: Kathleen Buto, Johnson & Johnson

Budget Crisis, Entitlement Crisis, or Healthcare Financing Problem: Which Is It?
Henry Aaron, The Brookings Institution

Can Markets Give Us the Health Care System We Want?
Thomas Rice, UCLA

Realistic Health Reform: Spanning the Ideological Divide
Joseph Antos, American Enterprise Institute

Insights into the Public’s Views about Health Insurance: Challenges and Opportunities for Would-Be Reformers
Mollyann Brodie, Kaiser Family Foundation

The Business Perspective on Health Care: The Time for Action Is Now
Maria Ghazal, Business Roundtable

**A webcast of this session by kaisernetwork.org, a free service of the Kaiser Family Foundation, is available at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/healthcast/nasi/01feb07.