Health Care UST MBA

Health Care UST MBA

March 2012 Washington, D.C., Experience

Sunday, March 25 

1:15 p.m.  Coming Close is the Best a Nation Can Do for Good Health Policy
  • Len Nichols, director, Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, George Mason University
2:30 p.m.  Health Policy Reform is a Journey With a Lot of History
  • Sheila Burke, adjunct faculty member of Georgetown University Public Policy Institute; Bipartisan Senate Leadership Committee, former chief of health policy for Senator Robert Dole
  • Chris Jennings, president, Jennings Policy Strategies, Inc.; former senior member of health policy council under President Bill Clinton
4:00 p.m.  Challenges in Leadership and Budget
  • Bill Dauster, deputy chief of staff for policy at U.S. Senate for former majority leader Harry Reid
  • Bill Hoagland, vice president of public policy, Cigna Health Care; former chief of staff, Senate Budget Committee
5:30 p.m.   Happy Hour and Student Policy Groups

 

Monday, March 26 

7:45 a.m. Introduction to the day – Senator David Durenberger

8:00 a.m.  The ACA and Its Implementation
  • Chip Kahn, president, Federation of American Hospitals
  • The Honorable Earl Pomeroy, former Congressman, retired 2011; counsel, Alston and Bird, LLP
  • Marilyn Weber Serafini, journalist, Kaiser Health News; formerly at the National Journal
10:00 a.m. Repeal / Replace or Reform?
  • Joe Antos, Wilson H. Taylor scholar in health care and retirement policy, American Enterprise Institute
  • Nina Owcharenko, director, Center for Health Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation
11:45 a.m. Lunch
 
12:15 p.m. There's More to Policy Than Politics
  • Susan Dentzer, editor, Health Affairs
2:00 p.m. The Role of HHS in Implementing National Health Policy
  • Dr. Nancy Nielsen, senior advisor, Center for Innovation at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services; former president, American Medical Association
  • Mary Wakefield, administrator, HHS Health Resources and Services Administration
  • Jonathan Blum, deputy administrator and director of the Center for Medicare
4:30 p.m. Capitol Tour with visit by Senator Amy Klobuchar

6:30 p.m. Reception- Johnny's Half Shell, 400 North Capitol Street NW, the Portrait Room
  • Guest speaker: Senator John Barrasso
  • Main speaker:  Sister Carol Keehan, president, Catholic Health Association; regent, University of St. Thomas

Tuesday, March 27

 

8:00 a.m. Health Care Financing
  • Stu Guterman, director, Program on Medicare's Future, The Commonwealth Fund
  • Steve Kelmar, senior VP government relations, Aetna   
10:00 a.m. Healthy People and Communities
  • Vice Admiral Regina Benjamin, M.D., Surgeon General for the United States
11:00 a.m. Community Benefit: A Key to Healthy People and Communities
  • Ron Schultz, PWC, former head, Tax Exempt Organizations, I.R.S.
12:00 p.m. Lunch
  • Dan Crippen, executive director, National Governors Association
1:45 p.m. Issues in the 2012 Presidential, Congressional and States Elections
  • Glen Bolger, Republican Party political strategist and pollster; co-founder, Public Opinion Strategies           
2:30 p.m. Can Congress, Especially the U.S. Senate, be Saved? 
  • Norm Ornstein, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute
3:30 p.m. Closing Remarks by Scott Kulstad and David Durenberger