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America's Health Insurance Plans, Health Care Cost Summit, Slowing the Growth of Health Costs--How to Bend the Cost Curve, March 9, 2011, Washington, D.C.


Health Care Cost Summit
Speakers and Sessions focused on Solutions


We all agree on the problem. Unsustainable health care costs are one of our nation’s most urgent fiscal problems. But, what are the solutions? What are the bold steps we need to take now and in the coming years to achieve system-wide cost containment?

Find out at AHIP’s Health Care Cost Summit, March 9, 2011 in Washington, D.C. The Summit agenda is packed with health care and health insurance leaders, economists, and budget policy experts who will focus on solutions that will make a difference.

Speakers Include:

  • Dan Crippen, PhD, Economist, Health Policy Expert and Former Director, Congressional Budget Office
  • Mark A. Eustis, President and Chief Executive Officer, Fairview Health Services
  • Patrick Geraghty, President and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
  • Paul B. Ginsburg, PhD, President, Center for Studying Health System Change
  • Bob Kocher, MD, Principal, McKinsey and Company
  • Jeff Lemieux, Senior Vice President, Center for Policy and Research, America's Health Insurance Plans
  • Maya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
  • Ralph G. Neas, President and CEO, National Coalition on Health Care and NCHC Action Fund
  • Len Nichols, PhD, Director, Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics and Professor, Health Policy, George Mason University
  • Wendell Primus, PhD, Senior Policy Advisor on Budget and Health issues, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi

Sessions Include:

  • Prospects for Bipartisan Legislation on Health Care Costs, What Should be Done, What Can be Done, and When?
  • Can Innovative Contracting Improve Quality, Change the Delivery System, and Cut Costs?
  • Budgetary/Economic Reality and the Need to Reduce the Growth of Health Care Costs
  • What Data, Incentives, and Strategies are needed for Health Stakeholders to Achieve and Maintain Quality/Lower Costs Everywhere?

Won’t you join us? Register Now
For an even better value, combine the Health Care Cost Summit with AHIP’s National Policy Forum (March 8-9 in Washington, D.C.) which takes place immediately before the Health Care Cost Summit.

  

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AHIP’s 2011 National Policy Forum, March 8 to 9, 2011, is your opportunity to gain a better understanding of health care reform implementation in a changed political environment. Join health insurance plan leaders as well as business, health policy, and political speakers to discuss ways forward in this complex political and regulatory environment.

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