The Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) at the University of Chicago is celebrating its 50th anniversary.  In commemoration of the 50th anniversary, a one-day conference with the theme of Equity and Choice in Health Care Access was held on April 12, 2013 at the Gleacher Center in Chicago, IL.  The conference convened key thought leaders from across the country to focus on issues related to health care access post-Affordable Care Act.  Click here to see the photo album from the conference.

 Speakers:

     Howard Gleckman, Resident Fellow, Urban Institute; Columnist, Caring for Our Parents at Forbes.com, “The Future of Long-Term Care Financing in a Post-CLASS World”

     Judy Feder, Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University, “Dual Eligibility: Choice and Access for Individuals Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid”

     Tamara Konetzka, Associate Professor, Health Services Research, University of Chicago

     David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Economics, Harvard University, “Health reform and the cost curve”

     Richard Frank, Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; “The impact of coverage expansion on vulnerable populations”

     Harold Pollack, Helen Ross Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago

     KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 

      Sherry Glied, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; “The Affordable Care Act:  An Insider's View”

       Julia Lynch, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania; “A frame for fairness”

       Norman Daniels, Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Harvard University; “The connection between equity and fairness in policy design in view of ACA”

      Colleen Grogan, Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago

      Eric Patashnik, Professor of Public Policy & Politics, University of Virginia, “What Does the Public Want from Comparative Effectiveness Research? Evidence from National Surveys”

      Jonathan Skinner, James O. Freeman Presidential Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College  “ACOs and Inequality”

      David Meltzer, Chief, Section of Hospital Medicine, Director, Center for Health and the Social Sciences, University of Chicago

     CLOSING ADDRESS:         

     Henry Aaron, Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; “Today in Health Reform: the Calm Between the Storms