Brookings Invitation

Posted on | March 30, 2015 | Comments Off on Brookings Invitation

Assessing the Affordable Care Act’s efficacy, implementation, and policy implications five years later.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015, 9:00 AM — 12:00 PM (EST)  The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, most commonly known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is one of the most important pieces of legislation enacted into law and implemented by the federal government in a generation. The ACA is also one of the most complex and comprehensive efforts to reform the American health care system and reduce costs. Now that the ACA is five years old, how successful has the law been in meeting its primary goals? What has been its efficacy in transforming American health care? What have been the major outcomes and unintended consequences? And what might the future hold for this law, given today’s political environment and a pending, major U.S. Supreme Court decision that could determine the ACA’s fate?

On April 14, Governance Studies at Brookings will host a forum to examine the ACA five years after its passage. This forum is the sixth annual A. Alfred Taubman Forum on Public Policy, which will convene leaders from academia, the media, and government to explore the far-reaching implications of the ACA. Discussion will focus on the law’s successes and failures as the most consequential piece of health care legislation in recent history.

9:00 AM — A new way of covering the uninsured – how the ACA has changed American health care & the reverberations to come
Moderator: Darrell West, Douglas Dillon Chair and Vice President and Director,  Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution  Andrew Slavitt, Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services  Department of Health and Human Services

10:00 AM — Examining the ACA’s implementation, successes, and failures and efforts to modernize health care delivery
Moderator: Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Effective Public Management, The Brookings Institution Eric Patashnik, Professor, Public Policy and Politics, University of Virginia Kavita Patel, Managing Director, Clinical Transformation, Center for Health Policy; Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution

11:00 AM — Has the ACA succeeded in bending the health care cost curve?
Moderator: Alice Rivlin, Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies and Director, Center for Health Policy; Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution Steven Brill, Founder, Brill Journalism Enterprises, LLC; Author, American’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Back-Room Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System Jean Moody-Williams, Deputy Director, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services