The American Enterprise Institute, The Galen Institute and The Heritage Foundation have joined together to provide a monthly series of health policy events for congressional staffers that will break down specific health policies and issues into a digestible format. Guests will leave the events with a clearer understanding of viable options on reform and how to move beyond the conflicts we face today.
What the Affordable Care Act Means for Congress and Staff
Monday, May 6, 2013, 12:30 p.m.
Speakers
Dr. Robert Moffit
Senior Fellow, Center for Health Policy Studies
Walt Francis (invited)
Health Care Economist
Under Section 1312 of the Affordable Care Act, Members of Congress and personal staff must be enrolled in the health insurance exchanges on January 1, 2014. What will this mean for choice of health plans, premiums, and out of pocket costs? What will this mean for Congressional staff coverage? How will these changes affect employment on Capitol Hill? What are the broader policy implications for the health care debate? These and other questions will be addressed at our special seminar. Please join us on Monday, May 6th, at 12:30pm for a briefing in HC-8 in the Capitol. Lunch will be provided.
RSVP to Mary Kate Cavazos at marykatherine.cavazos@heritage.org
Past events in the series include:
Budget Insights: Is entitlement reform now possible?
Should states expand Medicaid?
What to do when Obamacare fails
Hot topics on the campaign trail
Setting the record straight on Medicare
The court has spoken: How will the private sector and states respond?
Uncovering PPACA's Hidden Taxes
Who gets to decide: Government or your doctor?
'Obamacare' and The Supreme Court
How 'Obamacare' tramples on religious liberty
How to fix the doc fix
Is private health insurance really private anymore?
Who's on first, what's on second: Understanding the federal-state Medicaid partnership
The A, B, Cs of Medicare
Budget Insights: Is entitlement reform now possible?
Monday, April, 15, 2013, 12:30 p.m.
Speakers
James C. Capretta
Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Joseph R. Antos
Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute
It is two months late, but is the president's budget dead on arrival? We will discuss how the administration's new budget proposal positions the White House on entitlement reform. Please join us on Monday, April 15th, at 12:30 p.m. for a briefing in Room HC-8 of the Capitol. Lunch will be provided.
RSVP to Mary Kate Cavazos at marykatherine.cavazos@heritage.org
Should states expand Medicaid?
Monday, March, 11, 2013, 12:30 p.m.
Speakers
Joseph Antos
Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute
Grace-Marie Turner
President, Galen Institute
Several governors who originally had opposed the Affordable Care Act are being lured by full federal funding for the first few years into saying they want to expand Medicaid to families earning up to $30,000 a year. This would bring millions more people into a program that has a long history of serious problems and will make access problems even worse for those enrolled in the program today. Further, states will face major costs once the federal matching money starts to decline, and hospitals will not see the help to their bottom line they are hoping for. Joe Antos and Grace-Marie Turner will describe the financial and political risks of expanding Medicaid and better alternatives that will promote competition, consumer choice, and better access to care.
What to do when Obamacare fails
Monday, February, 4, 2013, 12:30 p.m.
Speakers
Tom Miller
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
James C. Capretta
Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Nina Owcharenko
Director, Center for Health Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
“The Affordable Care Act is too misguided to succeed, too dangerous to maintain, and far too flawed to fix piecemeal,” AEI scholar Tom Miller writes in his new monograph, When ObamaCare Fails. Please join us for an update on what’s coming as the health overhaul law steams toward implementation. And learn the key steps to get us on the path to market-based reform that will engage competition and consumer choice to create 21st century health reform.
Hot topics on the campaign trail
Wednesday, October, 10, 2012, 12:30 p.m.
Speakers
Grace-Marie Turner
President, Galen Institute
Nina Owcharenko
Director, Center for Health Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Health care policy is being actively debated in the presidential race and in campaigns across the country. We'll help sort out fact from accusation and give you a chance to get answers to the questions you are getting from constituents.
Setting the record straight on Medicare
Monday, September 10, 2012, 12:30 p.m.
Speakers
Robert Moffit, PhD
Senior Fellow, Center for Policy Innovation, The Heritage Foundation
Joseph Antos
Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute
Grace-Marie Turner
President, Galen Institute
Medicare “as we know it” is no longer an option. The program is in desperate need of structural reform due to fundamental flaws that have produced a subpar insurance program for seniors and unsustainable costs for the federal government. It offers retirees an outdated and fragmented benefits package while driving up the federal deficit. Medicare is currently facing a long-term unfunded obligation of $38.6 trillion and the Part A trust fund is projected to be empty by 2024. These problems will only intensify as the Baby Boomer generation continually adds 10,000 new beneficiaries to Medicare each day from 2011 to 2030, almost doubling enrollment from 48 million to 81 million.
The court has spoken: How will the private sector and states respond?
Monday, July 9, 2012, 12:30 p.m.
Speakers
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
President, American Action Forum
Nina Owcharenko
Director, Center for Health Policy Studies and Preston A. Wells, Jr. Fellow, The Heritage Foundation
The Galen Institute, The Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute invite you to join us for our monthly health policy briefing to examine the Supreme Court's decision on the health overhaul law and options for the industry in the wake of the decision. Our briefing will explore options for the states, employers, and the health sector. Doug Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, will explain the consequences of the court's decision and implications for both the short and longer terms. Nina Owcharenko, director of the Center for Health Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation and an expert on Medicaid, will talk about the impact on the states of the court's decision making Medicaid expansion optional.
Uncovering PPACA's hidden taxes
Monday, June 11, 2012
Speakers
Alex Brill
Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Steve Entin
President and Executive Director, Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation
The health overhaul law contains more than $500 billion in new and higher taxes and fees, costs that will be passed along to consumers in the form of higher health care and health insurance costs. The taxes on medical device makers already are costing jobs and cutting investments in research and development. Other taxes will have equally harmful effects. On January 1, the Medicare payroll tax will increase and a new tax will be levied on income from savings and investment. Once established, ObamaCare taxes will be very difficult to repeal and will hit more and more middle-income Americans.
Another Obama tax hike by Alex Brill and Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Taxing the sick: How "fees" in health care reform hurt patients by Alex Brill
Tax Hikes in PPACA and the Associated Reconciliation Act by Steve Entin
Who gets to decide: Government or your doctor?
A briefing on comparative effectiveness research and the health law’s reach into medical decisions
May 14, 2012
Speakers
Robert Goldberg, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Vice President, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest
Kathryn Nix
Policy Analyst, Center for Health Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Resources
Comparative Effectiveness Research Under Obamacare: A Slippery Slope to Health Care Rationing by Kathryn Nix
Fewer Drugs, Shorter Lives, Less Prosperity: The Impact of Comparative Effectiveness Research on Health and Wealth
by John Vernon, PhD, Robert Goldber, PhD, Peter J. Pitts, and Joseph H. Golec, PhD
'Obamacare' and The Supreme Court
March 12, 2012
Speakers
Thomas P. Miller, Esq.
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Robert Alt
Director, Rule of Law Programs and Senior Legal Fellow, The Heritage Foundation
Resources
Obamacare: up for grabs at Supreme Court by Thomas P. Miller, Esq.
The Obamacare Challenge: The Questions Before the Supreme Court and Their Portents for Congress
by Robert Alt and Edmund Haislmaier
How 'Obamacare' tramples on religious liberty
February 14, 2012
Speakers
Kristina Arriaga
Executive Director, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Charles A. Donovan
President, Charlotte Lozier Institute
Moderator: Jennifer Marshall
Director, Domestic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Resources
Obamacare, Religious Liberty, and Civil Society: What the Debate Is Really About by Ryan Messmore, D.Phil.
How to fix the doc fix
December 12, 2011
Speakers
Joseph Antos, Ph.D.
Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Heath Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute
Robert Moffit, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Center for Policy Innovation, The Heritage Foundation
Resources
Medicare's failed physician payment policy by Joseph Antos, Ph.D.
Is private health insurance really private anymore?
November 14, 2011
Speaker
Thomas P. Miller, Esq.
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Resources
Tom Miller’s presentation on “Saving Private Health Insurance”
Who's on first, what's on second: Understanding the federal-state Medicaid partnership
October 11, 2011
Speakers
James C. Capretta
Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Nina Owcharenko
Director, Center for Health Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Moderator: Danielle Doane
Director, Government Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Resources
James Capretta's presentation on understanding the federal-state Medicaid partnership
Nina Owcharenko’s presentation on Medicaid
Medicaid Reform: More than a Block Grant Is Needed by Nina Owcharenko
The A, B, Cs of Medicare
September 12, 2011
Speakers
Joseph Antos, Ph.D.
Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Heath Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute
Grace-Marie Turner
President, Galen Institute
Moderator: Nina Owcharenko
Director, Center for Health Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Resources
Joe Antos’ presentation on “The A, B, Cs of Medicare”
Grace-Marie Turner’s presentation on “The A-B-C (and D) of Medicare”
2011 Cost Sharing for Medicare Beneficiaries by Joseph Antos, Ph.D.
A Mistaken Prognosis for Medicare by Joseph Antos, Ph.D.
