I’ve received an invite from the folks conducting the Consumer Driven Healthcare Summit to attend the September 13-15 conference as a representative of the blog world, sort of a “press invite”. I applaud their openness in two respects – first, I’ve not exactly kept my skeptical views of consumerism in health care to myself; and second, bloggers are a wierd, strange, new form of media that many don’t yet recognize as important or even worth noting.
So, I’m looking forward to it.
The agenda includes talks by Paul Ginsburg of the Center for the Study of Health System Change (one of the few truly excellent policy/analysis concerns); Jon Gabel on how much consumers are actually contributing to their HSA accounts; Karen Davis of the Commonwealth Fund, Ron Pollack of Families USA and John Iglehart of Health Affairs on the Downside of Consumer Driven Healthcare; and several sessions on results of studies and research into various aspects of CDHP and its cousins.
This should be fun. And I’ll be doing my best to report live from the scene, in the best tradition of Matthew Holt.
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Say Hi to Ron Greiner for all of us! :)
look forward to seeing you!
This one should be good because they have both sides of the story, e.g. Commonwealth vs Galen, Enthoven vs. Goodman
The one in SF was the sound of one hand clapping–a “debate” a la Republican National Convention
I just looked at the agenda for th is conference. There are sessions designed for providers, employers, lawyers, and financiers. But no sessions for, you guessed it, consumers.