Washington Policy Center hosts health care conference–June 4

The Washington Policy Center will hold its Annual Health Care Conference Friday, June 4th.

The theme for this year’s conference is: How Will Health Care Reform Affect You and Your Business?

The featured speakers are Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna and Harvard Business School Professor Regina Herzlinger.

Attorney General McKenna will discuss the lawsuit he has joined that challenges the constitutionality of the new healthcare reform law, which argues that the law’s requirement that individuals purchase health insurance or pay a fine is beyond the Constitution’s Commerce Clause that allows Congress to regulate interstate commerce.

In her Professor Herzlinger in her 2007 book “Who Killed Health Care?’ called for the adoption of a consumer-driven health care system in which “Everyone is required to buy his or her own insurance….”.

To learn more:

• Read details from the announcement from the Washington Policy Center below or visit the Center’s website:

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8th Annual Health Care Conference:

How Will Health Care Reform Affect You and Your Business?

Friday, June 4th | 7:30am – 1:30pm | SeaTac DoubleTree

18740 International Blvd, Seattle

$65 Lunch & Conference ($60 WPC supporters) | $35 Lunch Only

$500 table of 8

Featuring Harvard Business School Prof. Regina Herzlinger and Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna

8:00am – 8:45am - Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna: The Attorneys General Lawsuit.

Rob McKenna is serving his second term as Washington’s 17th Attorney General. As the state’s chief legal officer, he directs 500 attorneys and nearly 700 professional staff providing legal services to state agencies, boards and commissions. McKenna will discuss Washington joining the lawsuit challenging the federal government’s power to force state residents to buy insurance from private companies.

12:00pm – 1:30pm - Dr. Regina Herzlinger: The Impact of National Health Care Reform

Dr. Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Herzlinger was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and the first to serve on a number of corporate boards. She is the author of two leading books on health care, including her latest, Who Killed Health Care? She was recently named one of the “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare.” Who Killed Health Care? was selected by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as one of the ten books that “changed the debate in 2008” and was profiled in a full-page article in The Economist.

9:00am – 10:15am

Panel 1: How Will the New Health Care Reform Be Financed?

Moderator: Dr. Roger Stark

• Impact on Businesses and Jobs – Renee Radcliffe Sinclair, Executive Director, Congressional & Public Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• Impact on Medicare – Joseph Antos, American Enterprise Institute
• Impact on Taxes and the Economy – Professor Mathew Manweller, Central Washington Universit

10:30am – 11:45am

Panel 2: Where Will the New Health Care Reform Money Go?

Moderator: Thomas Fritz, CEO, Inland Northwest Health Services

• The Medicaid Expansion – Douglas Porter, WA State Director of Medicaid and Health Care Authority
• Government Subsidies, the Insurance Exchanges and Private Insurance, the Insurance Exchange and Private Insurance – Jim Grazko, Vice President and General Manager, Underwriting and Contract Services, Premera Blue Cross
• Impact on Providers – Lloyd David, CEO, The Polyclinic

Tags: Health-care Reform, Washington Policy Center

Category: Healthcare Reform