Health CEOs for Health Reform

Our nation has an obligation to make sure everyone has quality, affordable health coverage. However, coverage will not be sustainable unless we refocus our delivery system on patients, improve quality, and increase efficiency.

Transforming our delivery system is good public policy and a necessary component of fiscal responsibility. Yet, we will not slow the rate of health care cost growth until we create stronger incentives for providers - the people who deliver care - to focus on quality and efficiency.

Please join the New America Foundation Health Policy Program and Health CEOs for Health Reform (HC4HR) as we discuss transformative, patient-centered reforms. HC4HR leaders will explain how bold incentives can make health care affordable and how their own experience proves a sustainable, value-based system is achievable.

Participants

Opening Remarks
Nancy-Ann DeParle
Director
White House Office of Health Reform

Featured Speakers
Scott Armstrong, MBA
President & CEO
Group Health Cooperative

Bruce Bodaken
President, Chairman & CEO
Blue Shield of California

Patricia A. Gabow, MD
CEO and Medical Director
Denver Health

Jane Horvath
Senior Director, Public Policy
Merck & Co., Inc.

Len Nichols, Ph.D.
Director, Health Policy Program
New America Foundation

Wade Rose
Vice President, External and Government Relations
Catholic Healthcare West

Anthony R. Tersigni, EdD, FACHE
President & CEO
Ascension Health

Nicholas Wolter, MD
CEO
Billings Clinic