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.