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Amid rising medical costs, Washington policymakers are grappling with how to make the nation’s health care system more affordable. But with the coming cuts to Medicaid and the debate over whether to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies, insurers and patients are bracing for more uncertainty ahead.

 

Join POLITICO for urgent conversations on policy proposals, from price transparency to site-neutral payments, that will impact Americans’ health care bills.


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FEATURED SPEAKERS

Additional speakers to be announced. 

Sen. Bill Cassidy

(R-La.)

Chair

Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee

Meena Seshamani

Secretary

Maryland Department of Health

Carrie Cochran-McClain

Chief Policy Officer

National Rural Health Association

Emily Felder

Health Care Group Chair

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

EXECUTIVE INSIGHTS 

Gwen Nichols, M.D.

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & Chief MedicaL officer

Blood Cancer united

Kristin Longe

vice president, PROFESSIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS

POLITICO

Additional speakers to be announced. 

AGENDA

Agenda is subject to change. 

3:30 p.m. 

Doors open 

4:00 p.m.

 

Welcome Remarks

Marty Kady, Editorial Director, Subscriptions, POLITICO

4:05 p.m.

Executive Conversation 

Stuart Alderoty, General Counsel, Ripple

Cally Baute, Senior Vice President, Consumer Business, POLITICO


4:20 p.m.

 

Editorial Conversation

 

Marta Belcher, Special Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Tyler Gellasch, President and CEO, Healthy Markets Association
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC)
Peter Van Valkenburgh, Research Director, Coin Center

 

 

Moderated by: Sam Sutton, co-author of Morning Money, POLITICO

4:45 p.m.

Reception 

Following programing, please join us for a reception in the Grand Ballroom Prefuction. 

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