Our Looming Medical Cost Catastrophe: What’s to be Done?

Uncontrolled medical spending has risen to the top of the national agenda and become a fiercely-contested election year issue. This conference, co-sponsored by Brookings and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, will consider why past efforts to contain costs have failed and how America might achieve cost-sensitive health care reform in the future. Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle will offer opening remarks on how to achieve change in today’s political climate. Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag, will deliver the luncheon address. The conference panelists, who include many of the nation’s top experts on health policy, come from a variety of disciplines and political perspectives. The speakers will take audience questions.

At the end of this year, The Brookings Institution Press will publish a volume, edited by Gregg Bloche and Leslie Meltzer, entitled Beyond Learned Helplessness: Solving America’s Health Care Cost Conundrum. The volume will contain contributions from the conference speakers and from others.

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Visiting Fellow, the Brookings Institution; Professor of Law, Georgetown University; Adjunct Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy, Georgetown University Law Center; Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University

Professor of Population Ethics, Harvard University School of Public Health

Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy, Georgetown University Law Center; Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Vice Provost for Health Affairs and Professor of Law, University of Texas

Director, Congressional Budget Office

Dartmouth College

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy

Professor of Law, University of Chicago

Professor of Law and Medicine, University of Illinois

Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Former Brookings Expert

Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy - Harvard University

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Peterson Institute for International Economics

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy

Visiting Fellow, the Brookings Institution; Professor of Law, Georgetown University; Adjunct Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Associate Professor, University of Texas School of Public Affairs

Senior Research Assistant, The Brookings Institution

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