

Roundtable Discussion on “Financing Comprehensive Health Care Reform”
May 12 , 2009, at 10:00 a.m., in 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Member Statements:
Max Baucus, MT
Charles Grassley, IA
Witness Statements:
Stuart H. Altman, Ph.D., Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy, HellerSchool for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Joseph R. Antos, Ph.D., Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC
Katherine Baicker, Ph.D., Professor of Health Economics, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA
Leonard Burman, Ph.D., Director, Tax Policy Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC
Robert Greenstein, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC
Jonathan Gruber, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., Executive Director, The Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, DC
James A. Klein, President, American Benefits Council, Washington, DC
Edward Kleinbard, Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation, Washington, DC
Gerald M. Shea, Assistant to the President for Governmental Affairs, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC
John Sheils, Senior Vice President, The Lewin Group, Falls Church, VA
Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Project HOPE, Bethesda, MD
Steven Wojcik, Vice President of Public Policy, National Business Group on Health, Washington, DC