- Health Care
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In this episode, healthcare policy experts Lanhee Chen and Nancy-Ann DeParle discuss the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits under the Affordable Care Act, the implications for healthcare coverage, and the future of healthcare policy in the US. They explore the challenges of data trustworthiness, the need for affordability, and the importance of defining problems in healthcare reform. The conversation emphasizes the necessity of finding common ground between differing political perspectives to address the complexities of the healthcare system.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Lanhee J. Chen is the David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution and cochair of its Healthcare Policy Working Group, At Stanford University, he is also director of Domestic Policy Studies, lecturer in the Public Policy Program, and an affiliated faculty member of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Chen’s writings have appeared in a variety of outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and he is a contributing writer to the Opinion page at the Los Angeles Times. He is also an NBC News contributor and appears frequently on the network’s flagship public affairs program, Meet the Press.
Nancy-Ann DeParle is a managing partner and co-founder of Consonance Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in the U.S. health care industry. From 2011-January 2013, DeParle was assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff for policy to President Barack Obama. A health policy expert, DeParle also served as counselor to the president and director of the White House Office of Health Reform from 2009-2011. In that role, she led the Obama Administration’s successful effort to enact the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and managed the initial implementation of the law.
Earlier in her career, DeParle served in the Clinton administration as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and as associate director for Health and Personnel at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). She also served in the governor’s cabinet as commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Human Services and a lawyer in private practice in Nashville and Washington, DC.
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Tom Church is a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution. He studies health care policy, entitlement reform, income inequality, poverty, and the federal budget. Church’s research interests include tax-advantaged savings accounts for health care, the fiscal effects of a federal public option, state-based regulatory reform, pro-growth federal tax policy, and the distributional effects of entitlement spending reform. He has researched the fiscal effects of major health care proposals and is a co-author of Choices for All, a set of common-sense health care reforms. He contributes to Hoover’s Healthcare Policy Working Group, the Fiscal Policy Initiative, and the Tennenbaum Program for Fact-Based Policy.
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