The National Healthcare Debate: Facts and Fantasies

Join the Institute for Global Leadership for a discussion on
• key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (otherwise known as Obamacare) and their impact
• the long-term growth potential of the federal health care law and what might follow
• alternatives to Obamacare and what comes next

with

John McDonough, Harvard School of Public Health

John McDonough is professor of public health practice at the Harvard School of Public Health and director of the new HSPH Center for Public Health Leadership. Between 2008 and 2010, he served as a Senior Advisor on National Health Reform to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Between 2003 and 2008, he served as Executive Director of Health Care For All, Massachusetts’ leading consumer health advocacy organization, where he played a key role in passage and implementation of the 2006 Massachusetts health reform law.

Michael Miller, Community Catalyst

As Strategic Policy Director, Michael Miller focuses on providing policy and strategy support to state-based consumer health advocacy groups. Over the course of his career, he has developed expertise in the areas of Medicaid, SCHIP, Medicare, and developing state-level options to expand coverage for the uninsured, small group and non-group insurance reform, long term care financing and delivery, managed care reform, and hospital community benefits and uncompensated care.

Stuart Altman, Brandeis University

Stuart Altman is the Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy Management. He is an economist whose research interests are primarily in the area of federal and state health policy. He served 12 years as Chairman of the congressionally legislated Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (ProPac), formed to advise Congress and the Administration on the functioning of the Medicare Diagnostic Related Group (DRG) Hospital Payment System. He is also Chair of The Health Industry Forum, which brings together diverse group leaders from across the health care field to develop solutions for critical problems facing the healthcare system.

Moderator: Philippe Villers

Philippe Villers is the co-founder of Families USA. He has served as its President and as a member of the Board of Directors since the inception of Families USA in 1981. He is deeply committed to Families USA’s mission of achieving universal access to high quality, affordable health and long-term care for all Americans. He is President of GrainPrto Inc, a green, not only for profit company. He currently also serves on the ACLU President’s Committee, Amnesty International USA’s Executive Directors Council, and on the Board of United Villages as well as the the External Advisory Board of the Institute for Global Leadership.