Sustainable Health Spending: Serious Issues—Sound Policy Solutions

With stronger economic growth and modest success in controlling U.S. health care spending, is there room for optimism in realizing a sustainable future? Altarum's 8th annual sustainable health spending symposium, which took place on July 12, 2018 in Washington DC, featured a distinguished panel of experts who spoke to this question and more at a critical time just months before the mid-term elections.

If you were unable to attend the event or would like a revisit the material, you can view a video recording of the full conference and download presenters' slides. Additionally, you can access the transcript of the conference here. Use the linked images below to navigate to different sessions within the recording.

Session 1:
Government Budgets, Health Care Spending and Policy Approaches 

Slides

• Our Topic Today - Ceci Connolly
• A Statistical Overview - Doug Elmendorf
• Government Budgets, Health Care Spending, and Policy Approaches - Louise Sheiner

Session 2:
New Perspectives on Health Care Cost Drivers

Slides

• A New Way to Define Value in Cancer Care - Peter Bach
• Explaining Slow Growth in Medicare - Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin
• Reforming the Structure of Medicare Provider Payment: Where Do We Go from Here?  - Matthew Fiedler
• Evidence Showing Programmatic Savings from Social Determinants Investments - Lauren Taylor

Session 3:
Unsustainable Health Care Spending: Sound Policy Solutions

Slides

• Health Trends Post-Obama: Where are Health, Health Costs and Payment Reform Headed? - Jeff Goldsmith
• Identifying Promising Solutions to Real Problems - Sherry Glied
• Exnovation, De-Adoption, and the Sustainability of US Health Care - Jonathan Skinner
• Unsustainable Health Care Spending: Sound Policy Solutions - G. William Hoagland