Remarks on Medicare drug pricing proposals by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar

An event from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy

Friday, October 26, 2018

8:45 am - 9:45 am EDT

Brookings Institution

1775 Massachusetts Avenue N.W.
Washington, DC
20036

On October 26, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar visited Brookings to deliver remarks on proposed reforms to Medicare Part B drug pricing policies. After delivering his prepared remarks, the Secretary participated in a fireside chat with Paul Ginsburg, director of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, and later took questions from the audience.

Agenda

October 26
- Introduction
  
  Paul B. Ginsburg Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Senior Fellow - USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics
- Keynote Address
  
  Alex Azar Secretary - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Fireside Chat
  
  Alex Azar Secretary - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  
  Paul B. Ginsburg Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Senior Fellow - USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics