Responsible Health Reform: Competition, Innovation, and Individual Control
AEI on the Hill
Thursday, June 19, 2008 | 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
325 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510
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About This Event

Americans spend over $2 trillion annually on health care, and health costs are growing at unsustainable rates. Millions of Americans are uninsured. Those with insurance are concerned that they are not getting enough value for their health care dollars. These problems are driving the rising chorus of demands for major health system reform. Can Congress take action to resolve these issues without creating new bureaucracies and imposing new restrictions that interfere with medical progress? Can reform ensure access to affordable, quality health care that protects the doctor-patient relationship?

At this event, Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) will offer a market-based reform proposal that relies on stronger competition in the health system, tax reforms, individual responsibility and ownership, and more active consumer involvement in medical decisions. Joseph Antos and Thomas P. Miller of AEI will offer their assessments of the key features of the Burr-Coburn proposal.

Please note this event is taking place at 325 Russell Senate Office Building.

Agenda
8:50 a.m.
Registration and Breakfast
9:00
Speakers:
U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.)
U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.)
9:30
Discussants:
Joseph Antos, AEI
Thomas P. Miller, AEI
10:00
Adjournment
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Joseph
Antos

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    Mr. Antos's research focuses on the economics of health policy—including Medicare and broader health system reform, health care financing, health insurance regulation, and the uninsured—and federal budget policy. He has written and spoken extensively on the Medicare drug benefit and has led a team of experienced independent actuaries and cost estimators in a study to evaluate various proposals to extend health coverage to the uninsured. His work on the country’s budget crisis includes a detailed plan to achieve fiscal stability and economic growth developed in conjunction with AEI colleagues.  


    Joseph Antos is also a health adviser to the Congressional Budget Office and recently completed two terms as a commissioner of the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission.  Before joining AEI, Mr. Antos was Assistant Director for Health and Human Resources at the Congressional Budget Office and held senior positions in the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Management and Budget, and the President’s Council of economic Advisers.


     



    Watch Mr. Antos in an interview with Bill Erwin of the Alliance for Health Reform on "Will Health Reform Reduce the Federal Deficit?"


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  • Phone: 202-862-5938
    Email: jantos@aei.org

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    Name: Catherine Griffin
    Phone: 2028625920
    Email: catherine.griffin@aei.org
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Thomas P.
Miller
  • Thomas Miller is a former senior health economist for the Joint Economic Committee (JEC). He studies health care policy and regulation. A former trial attorney, journalist, and sports broadcaster, Mr. Miller is the co-author of Why ObamaCare Is Wrong For America (HarperCollins 2011) and heads AEI's "Beyond Repeal & Replace" health reform project. He has testified before Congress on issues including the uninsured, health care costs, Medicare prescription drug benefits, health insurance tax credits, genetic information, Social Security, and federal reinsurance of catastrophic events. While at the JEC, he organized a number of hearings that focused on reforms in private health care markets, such as information transparency and consumer-driven health care.
  • Phone: 202-862-5886
    Email: tmiller@aei.org

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    Name: Catherine Griffin
    Phone: 202-862-5920
    Email: catherine.griffin@aei.org
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