Events

Costs, Savings and Chronic Disease: Health Reform and the Congressional Budget Office

On Thursday, May 21, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease held the first event in a series of breakfast briefings on models for health care savings. At the event, health policy researchers Mike O’Grady and Jim Capretta released a white paper entitled," Health-Care Cost Projections for Diabetes and other Chronic Diseases:The Current Context and Potential Enhancements." The white paper, which was commissioned by the PFCD, suggests that incorporating insights from clinical medicine and broadening the timeframe of analysis could improve the budgetary information available to policymakers for some disease states, such as diabetes.

Above, left to right (Steven H. Woolf, Jim Capretta, Michael J. O’Grady, Kenneth E. Thorpe)

On Thursday, May 21, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease held the first event in a series of breakfast briefings on models for health care savings. At the event, health policy researchers Mike O’Grady and Jim Capretta released a white paper entitled, "Health-Care Cost Projections for Diabetes and other Chronic Diseases:The Current Context and Potential Enhancements." The white paper, which was commissioned by the PFCD, suggests that incorporating insights from clinical medicine and broadening the timeframe of analysis could improve the budgetary information available to policymakers for some disease states, such as diabetes.

Speakers Included:

  • Kenneth E. Thorpe, Ph.D., Executive Director, Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease; Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
  • Michael J. O’Grady, Ph.D., Principal, O’Grady Health Policy, LLC and Senior Fellow, NORC at the University of Chicago. Former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS.
  • Jim Capretta, M.A., Director of Health Policy Consulting at Civic Enterprises, LLC and a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Former Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget.
  • Steven H. Woolf, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.M., Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Human Needs; Professor of Human Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University; and Fellow, American College of Preventive Medicine

Following the event, the Washington Post ran a story in its Daily Dose section, entitled, " Experts Offer CBO New Formula for Determining Cost of Reform."