Health Savings Accounts
Impact on the American Health Care System
December 12, 2003
Speaker Biographies
Tim Bireley is a health insurance product expert with over twenty years of experience in leading the full range of product management areas-development and implementation, pricing, underwriting, network development, sales, marketing, and finance. Mr. Bireley joined Fortis Health as vice president-product management for Fortis Insurance Company in 2001 and has led the development and marketing of the company’s HRA product and strategic positioning. Today, Fortis Insurance Company is a recognized provider of HRA and MSA plans.
Newt Gingrich is a senior fellow at AEI, where he leads the Twenty-First Century Health System project. During his twenty years in Congress, including his four years as Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich was committed to improving America’s healthcare system. He has worked extensively on the issues of health and health care since retiring from Congress, devoting the majority of his time to advocating a transformation of the entire system. Mr. Gingrich is the author of Saving Lives & Saving Money, in which he describes his vision of a twenty-first century system of health and health care that is centered on the individual, prevention-focused, knowledge-intense, and innovation-rich.
Bill Hampel is senior vice president of the Research and Policy Analysis Department and chief economist for the Credit Union National Association and Affiliates. He joined the department as an economist in 1978 and was promoted to vice president in 1985. He was appointed senior vice president in 1992. The Research and Policy Analysis Department maintains a comprehensive financial database on credit unions and researches financial and economic issues of interest to the credit union movement. Mr. Hampel also writes economic analysis columns for several credit union publications.
Shahira Knight joined the staff of the Joint Economic Committee as a tax economist. She later worked for the Washington National Tax Services office of PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Ms. Knight returned to Capitol Hill where she holds her current position as the senior tax and budget advisor for the House Committee on Ways and Means. She is responsible for legislation relating to pensions and benefits, compensation, health care, insurance, education, and excise taxes.
Doug Kronenberg is the chief strategy officer at Lumenos. With over twenty-five years of marketing experience, Mr. Kronenberg is responsible for developing Lumenos’ strategic marketing and business plan. Previously, he was the national vice president of marketing for Prudential HealthCare, at the time, a managed care company with over 4 million members and $7 billion in revenue. Before joining Prudential HealthCare in 1996, Mr. Kronenberg managed the national marketing organization for Humana Inc.
Dana Pavey is the director of research for Newt Gingrich at AEI. In her capacity in this position, Ms. Pavey has coauthored Saving Lives & Saving Money with Newt Gingrich and Anne Woodbury. She has developed the twenty-first century health room of transformation, a presentation outlining the future of health and health care in America. Additionally, she is a speaker who gives presentations on transformation, strategic thinking and twenty-first century health and health care system reform to a variety of forums, as well as a guest lecturer for graduate level health classes.
Toby Rogers is the president of Rxaminer and an experienced healthcare consultant. Through Rxaminer, Mr. Rogers provides Internet-based tools that assist consumers in identifying and understanding lower cost prescription medications. In the past four years, more than one million Medicare recipients have used this approach to reduce their drug expenses by ten to seventy percent. In addition to leading Rxaminer, Mr. Rogers also provides consulting services where he guides clients through the development and implementation of various strategic initiatives.
Greg Scandlen is the director of the Center for Consumer Driven Health Care at the Galen Institute, a nonprofit, non-partisan research organization in Alexandria, Virginia. Mr. Scandlen is an accomplished writer, researcher, and public speaker. He is considered one of the nation’s experts on health care financing, insurance regulation, and employee benefits. Before joining Galen, Mr. Scandlen was a senior fellow in health policy at the National Center for Policy Analysis, the president of the Health Benefits Group, and the founder and executive director of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance.
Kate Sullivan joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in February 1999 and is the organization’s director of health care policy. Representing small and large businesses alike, Ms. Sullivan determines the Chamber’s position and recommends courses of action with regard to legislative and regulatory proposals. Immediately before joining the Chamber, Ms. Sullivan worked with a nonprofit multi-provider health system in Chicago, where as director of government programs, she was responsible for finance and planning for the system’s Medicare and Medicaid clientele.
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