April 29 Web Briefing: How Large Employers
View Rising Health Care Costs and the Role of Government
The
COVID-19 pandemic and recent elections are changing the national
conversation around expanding health care coverage and reining in rising
health care costs. President Biden campaigned on a platform of expanding
access to public health coverage in ways that could change the role of
employer-sponsored health insurance, which currently covers about half of
all Americans.
At 2 p.m. ET on Thursday,
April 29, a public web
briefing will explore how large employers view the burden of
rising health care costs and the role of government in addressing them.
Organized by the Purchaser
Business Group on Health (PBGH), KFF (the Kaiser Family Foundation), and
West Health, the briefing will feature results from a new survey of more
than 300 executive decisionmakers at large companies with at least 5,000
workers.
The briefing will include an
overview of policy options under consideration in Washington, a
discussion of the survey’s implications, and remarks from U.S. Sen.
Mike Braun, ranking member of the Senate HELP Subcommittee on
Employment and Workplace Safety, and Rep. Bobby Scott,
chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. Other participants
will include:
- Lanhee Chen, David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American
Public Policy Studies, Hoover Institute
- Gary Claxton, Senior Vice President, KFF
- Chris Jennings, Founder and President, Jennings Policy
Strategies
- Bill
Kramer,
Executive Director for Health Policy, PBGH
- Timothy
A. Lash,
Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President, West Health
- Larry
Levitt,
Executive Vice President for Health Policy, KFF
- Elizabeth
Mitchell,
President and CEO, PBGH
The event is open to the public and will include a
question-and-answer session. If you have any questions about the event,
please contact webbriefings@kff.org.
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