Reinventing Health Care Delivery in the 21st Century

The Thirteenth Princeton Conference

May 24 and 25, 2006

Agenda

Thirteenth Princeton Conference Agenda

Papers

• The Health Care Delivery System:
  Where Are We Now? How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going?
  
  (paper pending)
  
  Stuart H. Altman, Ph.D.
  Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy
  Brandeis University
• Overview of a Reconfigured Health Care System
  
  Harold S. Luft, Ph.D.
  Director, Institute of Health Policy Studies, .
  University of California San Francisco
• What Will It Take to Move Towards a ‘Prius’ in Health Care?
  
  Michael L. Millenson
  Consultant, Northwestern University
• Living Within Limits -- Practical Lessons and
  Moral Choices: Where Economics Meets Ethics
  
  Uwe E. Reinhardt, Ph.D.
  James Madison Professor of Political Economy
  Princeton University
• Will the Real 'Rationing' Please Stand Up!
  
  Henry J. Aaron, Ph.D.,
  Bruce and Virginia Senior Fellow
  The Brookings Institution

Presentations

• The Impact of Progress: A View From the Trenches
  
  Thomas H. Lee, M.D., MSc.
  Network President, Partners Healthcare System
  Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• What Accounts for the Rise in Health Care Spending?
  
  Kenneth E. Thorpe, Ph.D.
  Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair, Rollings School of Public Health
  Emory University.
• Lessons from the 1990’s: Are There Any?
  
  Kevin J. Sexton
  President and CEO, Holy Cross Hospital
• System Integration:
  What Went Right and What Went Wrong? Lessons from the 1990's
  
  Gail L. Warden
  President Emeritus, Henry Ford Health System.
• "Prius-Style" Health Care Delivery
  
  Harold S. Luft, Ph.D.
  Director, Institute for Health Policy Studies
  University of California San Francisco
• Improving the Efficiency of U.S. Health Care
  
  Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH
  Director, Health Care Research
  Dartmouth Medical School and
  the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences
• How Can We Choose the Least-Bad Second Best?
  
  Henry J. Aaron, Ph.D.
  Bruce and Virginia Senior Fellow
  The Brookings Institution
• Living Within Limits: Making Moral Choices
  
  Stuart M. Butler
  Vice President of Domestic Policy
  The Heritage Foundation
• Towards a High Performance Health System
  
  Karen Davis,
  President, The Commonwealth Fund
• Tools for Health System Redesign: What Does a Hammer Look Like?
  
  Mark V. Pauly, Ph.D.
  Bendheim Professor & Chair, Dept. of Health Care Systems
  University of Pennsylvania.
• Consumer Directed Health Plans: Tool for Health System Redesign?
  
  Leonard D. Schaeffer
  Founding Chairman & CEO
  Wellpoint
• Tools for Transformation
  
  Raymond J. Baxter
  Senior Vice President
  Community Benefit, Kaiser Permanente
• Can Demonstrations Lead to System Re-design?
  
  Linda Magno
  Director, Medicare Demonstrations
  Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Innovations in Government Programs: P4P, Chronic Care, and Basic Payment Policy
  
  Robert A. Berenson, M.D.
  Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute.
• Reinventing Health Care Delivery in the 21st Century
  Frances M. Murphy, M.D., M.P.H.
  Deputy Under Secretary for Health
  Veterans Health Administration
• Investing in Health System Improvement: What Should the Future Federal Role Look Like?
  
  Scott Young, M.D.
  Director for Health Information Technology
  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Health Data and Information Systems: What Are the Odds for Legislation?
  
  Elizabeth Hall
  Director of Health Policy
  Office of U.S. Senate Majority Leader William H.Frist
• A Federal Agenda for Health Care Transformation
  
  Michael S. Zamore
  Policy Advisor, Office of the Honorable Patrick J. Kennedy.