SPEAKERS Host: United States Representative Eliot Engel Amy Berman, RN, Senior Program Officer, The John A. Hartford Foundation; living with stage IV breast cancer Diane Meier, MD, Director, Center to Advance Palliative Care, Mt. Sinai Medical Center Sean Morrison, MD, Director, Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, and Director, National Palliative Care Research Center, Mt. Sinai Medical Center SUMMARY Palliative care provides an […]

SPEAKERS Blair Childs, Senior Vice President, Premier R. Shawn Martin, Vice President for Policy and Practice Advancement, American Academy of Family Physicians Kim Allan Williams, MD, Vice President, Board of Directors, American College of Cardiology SUMMARY Could 2013 be the year? A consensus is emerging in Washington that this is the year to put the annual threat of SGR-driven Medicare provider cuts behind us. […]

SPEAKERS Leah Binder, Chief Executive Officer, The Leapfrog Group Ann Boynton, Deputy Executive Officer, California Public Employees’ Retirement System Wendy Lynch, Co-Director, Altarum Institute Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care Jon Skinner, Professor, Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice SUMMARY The National Coalition on Health Care and the Altarum Institute are cosponsoring a roundtable discussion on health care consumerism. The event will […]

SPEAKERS Tom Leyden, MBA, Director, Value Partnerships, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Larry Boress, President and CEO, Midwest Business Group on Health SUMMARY America’s health system faces high and rising costs and persistent issues related to quality of care. In an effort to stimulate dialogue around solutions to these challenges, the National Coalition on Health Care has launched […]

SPEAKERS Rachel Johnson, PhD, Professor of Nutrition and the University of Vermont Chair, Nutrition Committee, American Heart Association Michael F. Jacobson, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest Robert Greenstein, Founder and President, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities SUMMARY Consumption of added sugar is one of the most significant public health hazards of our time. Research shows that excess […]