Selected Events on Health Care

• "Health Care in America: How to Fix a Troubled System," An Economic Studies Event, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, March 25, 2004
• "Health Care System Crisis: How Can We Proceed with Reform?" American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, April 16, 2004
• Henry J. Aaron, "Financing Health Care with Limited Resources," speech before the Conference on Health Care Challenges Facing the Nation, October 7, 2004
• "Can Health Savings Accounts Cover the Uninsured?" Cato Institute Policy Forum, Washington, DC, May 3, 2005
• "How Not to Cover the Uninsured," American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, May 4, 2005
• "Do Health Accounts Promote Better Spending?" American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, June 29, 2005
• "Putting the Lid on Health Care Costs: An Industry Perspective," A Brookings Health Policy Forum, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, October 20, 2005
• "Fixing the Health Care System," American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, January 20, 2006
• "Can We Say No? The Challenge of Rationing Health Care," An Economic Studies and Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform Event, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, February 7, 2006
• "Employment-Based Health Insurance: A Prominent Past, but Does it Have a Future?" A Brookings Institution - New America Foundation Forum, June 16, 2006
• "Technology or Insurance: What Is Behind the Rapid Growth of Health Spending?" American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, July 17, 2006
• "The Business of Health: How Does the U.S. Health Care System Compare to Systems in Other Countries?" American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, October 17, 2006
• "Improving Health Care Quality: Is Medicare a Good Candidate for Pay-for-Performance?" Cato Institute Policy Forum, Washington, DC, November 2, 2006
• David Gratzer, MD, "The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care," The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC, Heritage Lecture #982, December 18, 2006
• "New Directions in Health Policy: A Discussion of the President's Tax-Based Health Insurance Proposals," A Tax Policy Center Event, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, February 09, 2007
• "Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007: The Health Spending Challenge," An Economic Studies, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and Budgeting for National Priorities Event, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, March 15, 2007
• "Competition: A Prescription for Health Care Transformation," Tom Coburn, MD, Joseph Antos, Grace-Marie Turner, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC, April 10, 2007
• "Health Care Reconsidered: Options for Change; Part One: Affordability and Effectiveness," The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, April 10, 2007
• "Should the United States Be More Like Scandinavia?" Cato Institute Policy Forum, Washington, DC, April 16, 2007
• "Evolving Beyond Traditional Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance," The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, May 02, 2007
• "The Myth of Government Health Care," John Stossel and Rebecca Hagelin, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC, May 8, 2007
• "Risk and Regulation: A New Look at the Individual Health Insurance Market," American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, May 11, 2007
• "Health Savings Accounts: Not Entirely Consumer Directed (Yet)," Cato Institute Policy Forum, Washington, DC, May 24, 2007
• "Part Two of Health Care Reconsidered: Options for Change--Who's Got the Cure? Four Options for Achieving Universal Coverage," The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, July 17, 2007
• "Health Care at the Crossroads: Personal Freedom or Government Control?" John Shadegg and Mark McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC, Heritage Lecture #1051, September 6, 2007
• "Health Care 20 Years From Now--Taking Steps Today to Meet Tomorrow's Challenges," Government Accounting Office Forum, Washington, DC, September 7, 2007
• "The Budget Deficit and the Soaring Costs of Health Care," The Brookings Institution Opportunity '08 Event, New Hampshire Institute of Politics, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH, September 26, 2007
• Peter Orszag, Congressional Budget Office Director, "Impact of the Evidence Shortfall on Health Care Costs, Public Budgets, and the Economy," presentation at the Institute of Medicine's 2007 annual meeting, October 2007
• "The Long-Term Outlook for Health Care Spending," American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, November 27, 2007
• "Health Care University," Five Cato Institute Luncheon Seminars on the Hill, The Cato Institute, December 10, 2007