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Speakers:
“The Republicans on Healthcare: Evaluating the Candidates' Plans”
Katherine Baicker is professor of health economics at Harvard University's School of Public Health. Her research interests include health economics, welfare, and public finance, with a particular focus on the financing of health insurance, spending on public programs, and fiscal federalism. From 2005 to 2007, Baicker served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush, where she worked on microeconomic policies focusing on health policy. Her research has been published in numerous journals such as the American Economic Review, Health Affairs, and Journal of Public Economics, and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and on National Public Radio.
“The Democrats on Healthcare: Evaluating the Candidates' Plans"
Sherry Glied is professor and chair in the health policy department at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Her research has focused on the financing of healthcare services and mental health policy in the United States. Glied served as a senior economist for healthcare and labor market policy to the President's Council of Economic Advisers, under Presidents Bush and Clinton from 1992 to 1993 and participated in Clinton's Healthcare Task Force. She has published numerous articles and reports, including the books Chronic Condition: Why Health Reform Fails and Better but Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the U.S. since 1950. She is part of the MacArthur Foundation's Mental Health Policy Network.
“What the Candidates Are Not Saying that You Need to Know"
David Dranove is an IPR faculty associate, Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management, and professor of management and strategy at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he also directs the Center for Health Industry Market Economics. His research focuses on problems in industrial organization and business strategy with an emphasis on the healthcare industry. He has published nearly 75 research articles and book chapters and written six books, including The Economic Evolution of American Healthcare: From Marcus Welby to Managed Care, the widely used textbook The Economics of Strategy, and the forthcoming Code Red: Reviving the American Healthcare System from Princeton University Press.
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