The Distinguished Speaker Program offers an annual series of lectures featuring prominent policy-makers, scholars, journalists, and other opinion leaders who address some of the most pressing issues in healthcare today.
This lecture series was launched in 2001 with Paul Ellwood, MD – the “father of HMOs” and instrumental in forming federal health policy and reforming private sector systems – asking a provocative question: “Does managed care need to be replaced?” In subsequent years, industry leaders such as John Wennberg, MD, director of the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at the Dartmouth Medical School, John Calfee, PhD, resident scholar of the American Enterprise Institute, and Robert Moffit, PhD, director of Domestic Policy Studies for the Heritage Foundation joined the list of prominent speakers at this coveted event.
Previous topics of discussion include:
- Unwarranted Variations in Health Care Delivery: What’s going on in southern California?
- Targeted Therapeutics – How Biotechnology Innovations Affect the Cost of Care and Competition Among Firms Marketing Pioneer Drugs
- State Health Reform: Revolutionary Possibilities
The series attracts healthcare industry leaders, alumni, faculty, and students, among others. Attendees have an opportunity to network and meet the speakers at post-event receptions.
Presented on Friday, November 4, 2011
8:00 - 10:45 am
University Club, UC Irvine
In August, the president and Congress came to a temporary truce on the budget and raised the debt ceiling, but that's far from the end of the story. A new "super committee" in Congress must find an additional $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction by November 2011, and health care is sure to be a target. If the committee fails, automatic cuts will occur in what Medicare pays for services over the coming decade, which would come on top of the reductions already scheduled in the Affordable Care Act. This presentation provided an understanding of this turbulent budgetary environment.
Keynote Speaker:
James C. Capretta, Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
and former Associate Director, White House Office of Management and Budget
Click here to read James' full bio.
For additional information, please contact Margaret Wong at 949.824.8474 or mwong@uci.edu.
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