Debate

Debate on Obamacare: Regulations, Subsidies, & Mandates

Michael Cannon, M.A., J.M., Director, Heath Policy Studies,  Cato Institute and Professor Sara Rosenbaum, J.D.,  Professor of Health Policy,  GWU School of Public Health and Health Services,  will debate some of the finer points of Obamacare's regulations. They will address the legality of expanding subsidies to federally run exchanges and the resulting expansion of the employer mandate. This wonky debate will dig into the details of the law for an engaging discussion.

NB:  This event will be held at the GWU LAW SCHOOL.

Debate/Discussion: US Health Care: Do we need to Reform the Reform?

Debate: Medical Malpractice and Quality: Where to go from here?

• Michael Cannon, CATO
• Shirley Svorny, prof of Economics, CA State University
• Dr. Jeff Segal, JD/MD
• Dr. Ellen Carson, MD/JD

Moderator: Theresa Harris, RN/JD, Malpractice Defense Attorney

Icahn School of Medicine at the Mount Sinai
Center for Science and Medicine, Davis Auditorium (2nd Floor)
1470 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10029
Parking is available 99th Street between Madison Ave and Park.

Registration: http://tinyurl.com/Icahn-Malpractice-Debate

The resolution for this debate is “Be It Resolved: Healthcare markets are not unique and do not require extra government intervention in order to function." This resolution is constructed to address 50 years of economic debate on the proper role of markets in healthcare, stemming from Kenneth Arrow’s seminal article “Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care” in which he stated the “laissez-faire solution for medicine is intolerable." We have two debaters who will in general uphold the resolution, and two debaters who in general disagree.

Arguing the Affirmative:

Avik Roy, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; author of The Apothecary Forbes column; graduate of Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Mark Pauly, PhD, Professor of Health Professor of Health Care Management and Business Economics and Public Policy, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Arguing in Opposition

Dr. William Sage, MD/JD, Vice Provost for Health Affairs UT- Austin; editor of Uncertain Times: Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care.

Dr. Sam Richardson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, LBJ School of Public Affairs, UT-Austin

Moderator: Dr. Fred Campbell, Clinical Professor, UTHSCSA

Arguing the Affirmative:

Robert Moffit, Senior Fellow, The Heritage Foundation

Dr. Richard Armstrong, MD, General Surgeon;  COO, Docs4PatientCare

Arguing in Opposition

Jonathan Cohn, Senior Editor, The New Republic

Dr. Cyril Hetkso, MD, Professor of Medicine,

University of Wisconsin

Moderator:   William J. Hueston, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

FREE Admission to THE GREAT DEBATE

For the Affirmative: Dr. Paul Song, member of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Cedars-Sinai's Samuel Oschin Cancer Center.

For the Opposition: Dr. Mitch Heller, attending physician at the JFK Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine.

Moderator: Dr. Kimberly Kilby, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education

For the Opposition:
Dr. Todd Frederick, DO, Dept. of Family Medicine, Ohio University Heritage School of Osteopathic Medicine
Dr. Jill Vecchio, MD, Radiologist, Fellow in Healthcare Policy, Centennial Institute
For the Affirmative:
Dr. Gary VanderArk, MD, retired neurosurgeon, faculty Colorado University SOM
Dr. Michael Victoroff, MD, CEO of Lynxcare, Inc
Moderator:
Dr. John Bender, MD, Family Medicine Physician and President of Colorado Medical Society

Part of the healthcare reform debate is on how to improve care by modifying physician compensation. What method will best lead to quality improvement and cost reduction? Is it by replacing fee-for-service with ACOs, or bundled payments? Should all physicians be salaried, whether in government single-payer system or private businesses? Is fee-for-service the real culprit for rising costs by driving "volume not value?" Will other methods be superior? What are the best ways to discover better payment models? Is it  government-driven policy changes, or do we need to let market competition drive innovations in delivery and compensation?

Come hear what four policy experts have to say on this very important part of solving the challenges we face in providing quality, affordable medical care.

Moderator: Howard P. Forman, MD, MBA, Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, Public Health (Health Policy), Management, and Economics at Yale University.

6:00 Reception

6:30 - 8:00 Debate

"Be It Resolved: The ACA Can't Be Mended, and Needs to be Replaced."

Affirmative:

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, MD,  Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute

James Capretta,  Senior Fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center

Opposition:

Sara Rosenbaum, J.D.  GWU School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Health Policy

Seth Trueger, MD, Emergency Physician & Health Policy Fellow, GWU

Moderator

TBD