Paying for the Baby Boomer's Healthcare: Show Me the Money! 4th Annual Health Policy Forum Thursday, October 19, 2006 Hilton St. Louis Frontenac Advance registration required: $75.00 per person To sign up for this event, call 314-416-0439, email forum@signaturefoundation.org or register online.

Forum Purpose:
To stimulate cross-sectional community dialogue about healthcare quality, efficiency and affordability.

Who Should Attend:
Healthcare executives and managers, providers, business leaders and HR managers, governmental leaders, appointed and elected, non-profit organizations

Agenda:

8 – 8:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM Opening Address
Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later







John Rother
Policy and Strategy Director, AARP

Mr. Rother is an expert on a wide range of issues, including Social Security, Pension, Medicare, private health insurance, Medicaid, long-term care and older workers. In his position at AARP, he is responsible for federal and state public policy formulation, as well as for AARP's Global Aging Initiative and development of the organization's overall advocacy strategy.

Prior to joining AARP, he was staff director of the US Senate Special Committee on Aging and Special Counsel for Health and Labor to Senator Jacob Javits (R-NY). Mr. Rother received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he editied the Law Review after graduating with honors from Oberlin College.

Mr. Rather is currently Chair of Generations United and Vice Chair of the National Quality Forum. He is a past member of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), The American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, The Foundation for Accountability, the Alliance for Health Reform, and the National Coalition on Health Care, among others. He served as a founding board member of the Corporation for National Service, Civic Ventures and the National Academy for Social Insurance.

9:50 - 10:10 AM Break

10:10 AM Panel & Community Input Discussion:
Key Issues in Healthcare Crisis

Timothy McBride Professor of Health Management and Policy, St. Louis University

Betty Sims Project Specialist, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
(Former State Senator)

Eric Feinstein Vice President, Compensation & Benefits, Ascension Health

Katherine Burns Signature Health Services, Inc., Moderator

11:30 AM Lunch Keynote Speech:
Paying For Health Care: Three Paradoxes







Henry J. Aaron
Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Dr. Aaron is an expert in health care cost, financing and rationing, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and tax policy. His current projects include health care rationing, Medicare reform, healthcare spending and government budgets.

He has served as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, taught at the University of Maryland and chaired the 1979 Advisory Council on Social Security. He is a graduate of UCLA and hold a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the advisory committee of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, among others. His many publications include "Can We Say No: The Challenge of Health Care Rationing" (with Melissa Cox) and "The Plight of Academic Medical Centers, Countdown to Reform: The Great Social Security Debate" (with Rober Reischauer).

1:00 PM Forum Adjourns

As in past years, non-profit organizations attending the Forum will be eligible to apply for special Foundation grants intended to support and promote the messages delivered at the Forum.

The cost for this event is $75 per person.

Forum Planning Committee:
Tim McBride, Professor of Health Management & Policy
St. Louis University

Dr. Michael Burns
Signature Health Services, Inc.

Herman Noah, Executive Director
St. Louis Youth and Family Center

Louise Probst, Executive Director
St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition

Dave Totaro, Vice President, Communications
RehabCare Group

Hilton St. Louis Frontenac 1335 South Lindbergh Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63131 Tel: 1-314-993-1100 Fax: 1-314-993-8546 (click here for map)