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5:00pm – 7:00pm Conference Opening Reception and Keynote
- Ai-jen Poo, Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and Co-director, Caring Across Generations
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017 (National Press Club, 529 14th Street, 13th Floor, NW, Washington, DC)
8:20am Welcome Remarks
- William J. Arnone, National Academy of Social Insurance
8:30am Opening Keynote
- Peter Georgescu, Author of Capitalists Arise!: End Economic Inequality, Grow the Middle Class, Heal the Nation (Forthcoming, May 2017) and Chairman Emeritus, Young & Rubicam
9:50am Break
10:00am Panel 1: Repeal and Replace? Health Insurance beyond the ACA
- Len Nichols, George Mason University
- Avik Roy, The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity
- James Roosevelt, Jr., Tufts Health Plan
- Brett Graham, Leavitt Partners
- Moderator: Joseph Antos, American Enterprise Institute
11:15am Panel 2: Better Leveraging Medicaid to Foster a Culture of Health
- Trish Riley, National Academy for State Health Policy
- Alexandra L. Bradley, National Academy of Social Insurance
- Stephen A. Somers, Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.
- Leana Wen, Commissioner of Health, Baltimore City
- Moderator: Joy A. Lewis, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy
12:15pm Break
12:30pm Networking Luncheon
1:25pm Panel 3: Improving Quality and Cost Control in Medicare: Medicare for All, Premium Support, Prescription Drug Reform
- Marilyn Moon, American Institutes for Research
- Stephen Schondelmeyer, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota
- Yevgeniy Feyman, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
- Ted Marmor, Yale University
- Moderator: Paul Van de Water, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
2:35pm Panel 4: Reforming Social Security in an Era of Inequality: Insurance vs. Private Accounts
- Jason Fichtner, Mercatus Center
- Benjamin W. Veghte, National Academy of Social Insurance
- Ken Apfel, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
- Elaine Fultz, International Labor Organization (retired)
- Moderator: Ngina Chiteji, Wagner School of Public Service, New York University
3:35pm Break
3:45pm Panel 5: Caregiving and Social Insurance: Paid Family Leave and Long-Term Services and Supports
- Aparna Mathur, American Enterprise Institute
- Maya Rossin-Slater, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Judy Feder, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
- Henry Claypool, Community Living Policy Center, UCSF
- Moderator: Josephine Kalipeni, Caring Across Generations
4:45pm Wrap-Up and Conference Adjournment
5:00pm Closing Remarks
- William Rodgers, National Academy of Social Insurance