The Third Rail of Health Care Reform: Cost The Third Rail of Health Care Reform: Cost

On August 29th, a seminal conversation on health care reform took place in Nashville, Tennessee at the elegant Schermerhorn Sympony Center. The ripple effect of hard truths revealed at The Third Rail of Health Reform: Cost, by some of our nation’s foremost experts on health care, will be heard from Main Street to Washington, D.C. in the coming months.

Hundreds of members from various groups, organizations and the general public attended the event throughout the day, while over 700 others viewed the live webcast directly from this website. The webcast tracking indicated that viewers from 20 different states within the U.S. participated, as well as viewers from Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, and United Kingdom.

We hope you’ll enjoy a review of the day’s events by viewing the videos and photo gallery posted here.


To read more about the participants,
please browse our interactive program.

 

EVENT PARTICIPANTS

  • Phil Bredesen, Governor, State of Tennessee
  • Bob Brook, Vice President, RAND Corporation; Director, RAND Health
  • Jim Cooper, U.S. Representative, Tennessee’s Fifth Congressional District
  • Helen Darling, CEO, National Business Group on Health
  • Alexandra Drane, Healthspottr Health Care Innovator
  • Julie Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2002–2009)
  • Carleen Hawn, Cofounder and CEO, Healthspottr
  • Debra Lappin, J.D., President, Council for American Medical Innovation
  • Charles N. Martin, Jr., Chairman and CEO, Vanguard Health Systems; Trustee, RAND Corporation
  • Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Ph.D., Associate Director, RAND Health
  • Len Nichols, Director, Health Policy Program, New America Foundation
  • Leonard D. Schaeffer, Judge Widney Professor and Chair, University of Southern California; Founding Chairman and CEO, WellPoint
  • Dr. Jordan Shlain, Healthspottr Health Care Innovator
  • Patrick Soon-Shiong M.D., Chairman and CEO, Abraxis BioScience, Inc.
  • Jim Thomson, President and CEO, RAND Corporation
  • David M. Walker, President and CEO, Peter G. Peterson Foundation; Comptroller General of the United States (1998–2008)

We gathered many questions during the event - more than our participants were able to answer during their time together. Over the next few weeks, we will post answers to those questions here at thirdrailcost.com, and we look forward to continuing this conversation. Click here to view questions.

For questions and general inquiries, please email us at thirdrailcost@gdc-co.com
or contact Patti Tanner at (210) 884-8066.