January 16, 2020 | The Spy Museum, Washington, DC

The U.S. health sector will take in more than $50 trillion over the next decade alone, with costs expected to increase faster than wages and inflation. In fact, the medical cost trend is growing so rapidly, within 10 years the typical family will spend 40 percent of their income on healthcare. From surprise medical bills, debates over the Affordable Care Act and “Medicare for All,” to the march toward value-based care and efforts to improve prescription drug affordability, health policy to lower costs remains a primary focus of Congress, the administration, and the public.

Please join the Council for Affordable Health Coverage to answer the question, what is the “Price of Good Health”. Our goal will be to unearth the factors driving up health costs and develop the solutions to help reverse the cost trend.

Featured Speakers Include FTC Commissioner Christine S. Wilson; Congressman Ami Bera, MD (D-Ca); HHS Chief Data Officer Mona Siddiqui, MD; Microsoft CTO Kerri Lynn Primmer Morris, and Ryan Foundation Executive Director Mark Dant.

See below for the full agenda.

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Schedule at a Glance

• 8:00am- Registration & Breakfast
• 8:30am- Level-set: How Health Costs Are Making Us Poorer
  • Joel White, Council for Affordable Health Coverage
• 8:45am- Keynote- Presidential Year Health Care Politics: Then and Now- What the Polls Reveal
  • Jon McHenry, North Star Opinion Research
• 9:15am- A Round with Members of Congress
  • Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE)
  • Rep. Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA)
  • Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ)
• 10:00am- Sponsor Spotlight: Diagnosing & Solving Patient Affordability
  • Lori Reilly, PhRMA
• 10:15am- Panel: The Future of Health Coverage in the US
  • David Merritt, Executive Vice President, Public Affairs & Strategic Initiatives, AHIP
  • Justine Handelman, Senior Vice President, Office of Policy & Representation, BCBSA
  • Jeff Lemieux, Chief Economist, CAHC, Moderator
• 11:00am- Break
• 11:15am- Keynote: Remarks from Christine S. Wilson, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
• 11:45am- Panel: Health Care Industry Divided- What steps are needed to change public perceptions and work together to reduce costs?
  • Rick Suarez, Senior Vice President, US Market Access, AstraZeneca
  • Don Dempsey, Vice President, Policy & Regulatory Affairs, CVS Health
  • John C. Frenzel, MD, Director, The Learning Health System, MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Kashyap Patel, MD, CEO, Carolina Blood and Cancer Care, Community Oncology Alliance
  • Joel White, President, CAHC, Moderator
• 12:30pm- Initiative Spotlight: Going Below the Surface
  • Dan Leonard, President & CEO, National Pharmaceutical Council
  • Mary Grealy, President, Healthcare Leadership Council
• 12:40pm- Break for Lunch
• 1:00pm- Lunch Keynote- 2020 Healthcare Priorities
  • The Honorable Eric Hargan, Deputy Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services
• 1:30pm- Sponsor Spotlight- The Future of Medicare: Building and Sustaining Health Security for Today’s Older Americans and the Beneficiaries of Tomorrow
  • Congresswoman Allyson Y. Schwartz, President & CEO, Better Medicare Alliance
• 2:00pm- Keynote- Finding Tomorrow: One Family’s Journey to Finding Treatment through Building Partnerships in our System
  • Mark Dant, Board Chairman, EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases; Executive Director, The Ryan Foundation
• 2:30pm- Panel- 22nd Century Health: How data and technology can shape the future of health care and keep the public’s trust.
  • Mona Siddiqui, MD, MPH, MSE, Chief Data Officer, HHS
  • Kerri Lynn Primmer Morris, CTO, Healthcare, Microsoft
  • Warren Harber, Vice President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan
  • Deven McGraw, Chief Regulatory Officer, Ciitizen
  • Arthur Allen, Health Care Editor, POLITICO, Moderator
• 3:15pm- Closing Remarks
  • Joel White, President, CAHC