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Saturday, November 21, 2009
 
 
EVENTS
Fixing the Health Care System
A Conversation with R. Glenn Hubbard, Former Senator John Breaux, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Date: Friday, January 20, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM — 10:30 AM
Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
 
 
About This Event

America’s health care system leads the world in producing medical breakthroughs, yet it is error-prone, expensive, and inefficient. On January 20, AEI will convene a panel of three experts––AEI visiting scholar R. Glenn Hubbard, former senator John Breaux, and former Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Holtz-Eakin––to discuss how our $2 trillion health care system can be fixed without destroying its strengths.
 
The three panelists will look at how shifts in the tax code affect the uninsured, how Medicare policy determines the quality of private medicine, and how national and state insurance laws keep many from buying health coverage, among other major issues. Hubbard will specifically examine policies proposed in his new book,
 Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System (AEI Press, November 2005; coauthored with John F. Cogan and Daniel P. Kessler) that could save Americans $60 billion a year and provide insurance to as many as 20 million more people.

 
Agenda
8:45 a.m.
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9:00
Welcoming Remarks:
Christopher DeMuth, AEI
 
Discussants:
R. Glenn Hubbard, AEI and Columbia University
 
 
Former senator John Breaux (D-La.)
 
 
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Council on Foreign Relations
 
Moderator:
Joseph Antos, AEI
 
 
 
10:30
Adjournment
 
 
 
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