2024 Symposium on Health Policy

Date

Start: September 11, 2024, 07:45 am
End: September 11, 2024, 06:30 pm

Location

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001

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Audience

Student
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2024 Symposium on Health Policy

Join us in the heart of Washington, D.C., for a one-day public conference to discuss health policy in 2025 and beyond. Hear from congressional committee leaders, the Congressional Budget Office health director, federal legislative directors, policy experts, employer purchasers, journalists, philanthropists, and academics as they discuss how to achieve a healthier and more prosperous America.

Dress code: Business casual

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Agenda

TimeEvent
7:45-8:10 a.m.Breakfast
8:10-8:15 a.m.

Opening remarks

  • Goker Aydin, Vice Dean for Faculty and Research, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
8:15-9 a.m.

Panel #1: Healthcare spending

  • Senator Bill Cassidy, Louisiana
  • Representative Kevin Hern, Oklahoma, District 1
  • Theo Merkel,* Paragon Health Institute & Manhattan Institute
  • Chapin White, Congressional Budget Office
9:15-10 a.m

Panel #2: Health policy 2025 & beyond

  • Joe Antos, American Enterprise Institute
  • Scott Atlas, Hoover Institution
  • Brian Blase, Paragon Health Institute
  • Michael F. Cannon,* Cato Institute
10:15-11 a.m.

Panel #3: Views from the Hill

  • Patrick Dumas, House Committee on Ways and Means
  • Grace Graham, House Committee on Energy and Commerce 
  • Avik Roy,* Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity
  • Kristen Shatynski, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
11:15 – Noon

Panel #4: Free speech in medicine

  • Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford University
  • Representative Greg Murphy, North Carolina, District 3
  • David Hyman,* Georgetown University
  • Marty Makary, Johns Hopkins University
Noon – 1 p.m.Lunch
1 - 1:45 p.m.

Panel #5: Employer-sponsored health insurance

  • Cynthia Fisher, PatientRightsAdvocate.org
  • Bret Jackson, National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
  • Elizabeth Mitchell, Purchaser Business Group on Health
  • Chris Pope,* Manhattan Institute
2-2:45 p.m.

Panel #6: Physician autonomy and leadership

  • Scott Atlas, Hoover Institution
  • Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford University
  • Marty Makary, Johns Hopkins University
  • Phil Phan, Johns Hopkins University
  • Dan Polsky,* Johns Hopkins University
3-3:45 p.m.

Panel #7: Journalist perspectives

  • Dan Diamond, The Washington Post
  • Caitlin Owens,* Axios
  • Elisabeth Rosenthal, KFF Health News
  • John Tozzi, Bloomberg News
  • Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News
4-4:45 p.m.

 Panel #8: Philanthropy and health policy

  • Ge Bai,* Johns Hopkins University
  • Cynthia Fisher, PatientRightsAdvocate.org
  • Mairin Mancino, Peterson Center on Healthcare
  • Leck Shannon, Stand Together
4:45-5 p.m.

Closing remarks

  • Alex Triantis, Dean, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
5-6:30 p.m.Reception

*indicates speaker/moderator

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