Governor Eliot Spitzer has pledged to make health care more affordable for all New Yorkers, and to reduce the state’s numbers of medically uninsured residents. But before the state embarks on broad-based health-care reform, we should first consider the results of previous reform efforts and carefully examine the needs of New York’s uninsured population.
The conference brings together a bipartisan group of leading scholars, stakeholders, and policymakers to review the history of insurance reform in New York, to discuss the demographics of the uninsured, and to consider promising strategies—both home grown and those from other states—for making health care more accessible and affordable for all New Yorkers.
AGENGA
| 8:30 AM | REGISTRATION |
| 9:00 AM | OPENING REMARKS Paul Howard, Acting Director, Manhattan Institute’s Center for Medical Progress James R. Knickman, President and Chief Executive Officer, New York State Health Foundation |
| 9:10 AM | PANEL ONE: NEW YORK’S UNINSURED: A HISTORY OF GOOD INTENTIONS AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES James R. Tallon, Jr., President, United Hospital Fund of New York Mark Scherzer, Legislative Counsel, New Yorkers for Accessible Health Coverage Tarren Bragdon, Health Policy Analyst, Empire Center for New York State Policy Moderator: Howard Husock, Vice President, Policy Research, Manhattan Institute |
| 10:20 AM | BREAK |
| 10:30 AM | PANEL TWO: PUBLIC SECTOR EXPERIMENTS: MANDATES, MEDICAID, AND MARKETS Edmund F. Haislmaier, Senior Research Fellow in Health Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation Jon Kingsdale, Ph.D., Executive Director, Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority Len Nichols, Ph.D., Director, Health Policy Program, New America Foundation David Gratzer, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute’s Center for Medical Progress Moderator: Paul Howard, Acting Director, Manhattan Institute’s Center for Medical Progress |
| 12:00 PM | RECEPTION |
| 12:30 PM | LUNCH |
| 1:00 PM | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Director, Congressional Budget Office (2003-2005); Chief Economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisors (2001-2002); Policy Director, John McCain 2008 |
| 2:00 PM | ADJOURN |
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