8:00 am

Registration & Breakfast

9:00 am

Introductory Remarks
Hosts and Keynotes including w

• Jonathan Ortmans, President, The Public Forum Institute

• Ben Cutler, Chairman, Fortis Health

• Fred Barnes, Executive Editor, The Weekly Standard

9:25 am

Opening Address: “Making Health Care More Affordable”

• Dan Crippen, Former Director, Congressional Budget Office

9:45 am

Panel 1: Empowering Patients in the Medical Marketplace

• Larry Leisure, Managing Partner, Health Services Industry, Accenture; Senior Fellow, Institute for the Future

• Helen Darling, President, Washington Business Group on Health

• Grace-Marie Turner, President, The Galen Institute

10:45 am

Break

11:00 am

Panel 2: Lawsuit Abuse and the Cost to the Health Care Consumer

• Nancy Udell, Director of Policy and General, Counsel Common Good

• Jim Wootton, Partner, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw

• William West, President, FirstMSA Inc.

12:00 pm

Panel 3: Avoiding Costly Government Mandates

• Mike Pickens, Commissioner, Arkansas Insurance Department

12:30 pm

Luncheon Session

• Congressman Joe Barton, U.S. House of Representatives

• Rex Cowdry, Associate Director, National Economic Council  

1:45 pm

Panel 4: Expanding Access & Enhancing Affordability: How Tax Laws Can Help 

• Congresswoman Kay Granger, U.S. House of Representatives

• Joel White, Professional Staff, House Ways & Means Subcommittee on Health

• John Goodman, President, National Center for Policy Analysis

• Mark Pauly, Professor, University of Pennsylvania

• Bob Hughes, President, National Association for the Self-Employed

2:30 pm

Panel 5: Taking Advantage of New Technology

• Cathy Tripp, National Practice Leader for eHealth, Watson Wyatt

• Blair Childs, Executive VP, Advamed

3:15 pm

Concluding Address

• The Honorable Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

3:40 pm

Wrap Up & Analysis

• Maureen Cotter, Global Practice Director, Watson Wyatt

• David Alders, President, Carrizo Creek Corporation

• Kit Garren, President, Investment Properties Management Corp.

• Maria Haughton, Chief Financial Officer, American Stainless Tubing, Inc.

• Dave Stephens, President, Stephens-Matthews Marketing

4:15 pm

Adjournment

• Fred Barnes, Executive Editor, The Weekly Standard