Making Health Care Reform Work
Index of past events in the series
I. Assessing Health Care Reform: Promise, Prospects, and Pitfalls
November 18, 2010
Moderator:
John Ellwood
Professor of Public Policy
Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Panelists:
Mollyann Brodie, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Vice President, Director of Public Opinion and Media Research
Alain C. Enthoven, Stanford University
Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus
Senior Fellow Emeritus (by courtesy), Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford
Jonathan Oberlander, University of North Carolina
Professor, Social Medicine
Professor, Health Policy & Management
Adjunct Associate Professor, Political Science
Sally Pipes, Pacific Research Institute
President and CEO
Resources:
Mollyann Brodie presentation slides
Sally Pipes presentation slides
II. Can We Afford Health Reform?
January 31, 2011
301 Health Science West (HSW), Parnassus campus UC San Francisco
Co-sponsored with Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies,
UC San Francisco
Moderator:
Claire Brindis
Director, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Panelists:
R. Adams Dudley
Professor of Medicine and Health Policy
Associate Director for Research
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco
Robert Kocher
Former Special Assistant to the President for Healthcare and
Economic Policy.
Currently, Director of the McKinsey Center on U.S. Health System Reform and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Richard Scheffler
Director of the Health Policy Training Program, UC Berkeley School of Public Health; Director, Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets & Consumer Welfare; Distinguished Professor of Health Economics, School of Public Health
Steven Shortell
Dean and Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor Health Policy and Management; Professor of Organizational Behavior, Haas School of Business
Resources:
Event flyer [PDF]
Broadcast
A recording of this program is available on UCTV.
III. The Impact of Health Reform on California
February 4, 2011
Sacramento, CSAC Auditorium, 1020 11th Street, 2nd floor
Co-sponsored with the UC Sacramento Center
Opening Remarks:
Kevin Johnson Mayor, Sacramento, California
Congresswoman Doris O. Matsui (D-Sacramento)
"A congressional update on the Affordable Care Act."
Moderator:
Lisa Suennen Co-founder and Managing Member of Psilos Group
Panelists:
Diana Dooley Secretary, Health and Human Services Agency
Cindy Ehnes Director, California Department of Managed Healthcare
Paul Markovich Chief Operating Officer, Blue Shield of California
Saumya Sutaria Director, McKinsey & Co.
Resources:
Event flyer [PDF]
Program [PDF]
Webcast
webcast.berkeley
Youtube
iTunes (audio)
iTunes (video)
Press coverage
"Healthcare Reform in California: Which Side of the SeeSaw Are We On?" - Venture Valkyrie, February 5, 2011
"Officials talk about need for California to push forward with health care reform" - ABC News10, February 4, 2011
IV. The Politics of Evidence-Based Medicine: Patients, Profits, and Partisanship
March 10, 2011
Harris Room, 119 Moses Hall
Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley
Speaker:
Eric Patashnik
University of Virginia
More than half the treatments provided to patients lack clear evidence that they are effective, according to the Institute of Medicine. The Obama Administration has made a major investment in “comparative effectiveness research” to learn what treatments work best. But conservative critics say CER is a step toward rationing and government disruption of the doctor-patient relationship.
Eric Patashnik will discuss the politicization of evidence-based medicine and report the results of national opinion surveys on the public's beliefs and attitudes toward proposed reforms.
About Eric Patashnik
Eric Patashnik is Professor of Politics and Public Policy and Associate Dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Patashnik's latest book is Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted (Princeton University Press, 2008), which received the 2009 Louis Brownlow Book Award given by the National Academy of Public Administration. His two other books are Promoting the General Welfare: New Perspectives on Government Performance (co-editor with Alan S. Gerber, Brookings Institution Press, 2006) and Putting Trust in the U.S. Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment (Cambridge University Press, 2000). His current major research project, with Professor Alan S. Gerber of Yale University, explores the politics of evidence-based medicine.
Resources:
Problem Solving in a Polarized Age: Comparative Effectiveness Research and the Politicization of Evidence-Based Medicine
Gerber, Alan S. and Patashnik, Eric M.
The Forum: Vol. 8: Iss. 1, Article 3. (2010)
The Public Wants Information, Not Board Mandates, From Comparative Effectiveness Research
Alan S. Gerber, Eric M. Patashnik, David Doherty and Conor Dowling
Health Affairs, 29, no.10 (2010):1872-1881