Payment model. And transitioning from a fee for service to a value based reimbursement system. This event was hosted by the National Institute for Healthcare Management foundation. Its about two hours. Good afternoon. So wed like to go ahead and get started. Im nancy chockley. President and ceo of foundation and im just dlieded to welcome you all here today. We have an incredible panel of business and policy leaders. They come at the problems from different perspective. But one unifying theme between all of them is their concern for what rising healthcare costs do to americans. And the need to increase value in our Healthcare System. So each of them will present their own ideas of how to increase value or how they are increasing value in the Healthcare System. A nonprofit nonpartisan organization. And we believe by bringing people together with different perspectives, we can improve healthcare through evidence and collaboration. We have a wonderful audience today. I recognize some of y
The deadline for greece is getting closer. Some say greece will deliver a reform proposal within this hour. We will be live in greece in athens and germany, as they await that proposal. Chinas getting a break from the selloff overnight. Big rally there. No one is breathing a sigh of relief just yet. Well break down what makes chinas markets so different from other Global Markets. Wait till you hear these statistics about the role individual investors play in the shanghai market specifically. Right now, lets show you how we stand on wall street we had a big rally on the open this morning. Slowly the air had been coming out of that rally. The dow was up more than 200 points on the open. A gain of 78 at 17,594. S p up ten, nasdaq up just 24 points. Apple is one of the drags on the dow today. Well follow that story, as well. A lot of moving parts and pieces over the next couple of hours. Lets get to bob pisani on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. So far so good. Smooth open trading
Playing hockey. He is not able to join us. Mike will cover some of the points he was going to make. Why theres a call to action to increase value in our Health Care System. Ill start first by introducing each panelist and sit down, and then go on. So ill start with mike, who is one of the nations most highly regarded economists. Really what distinguishes mike, not only is he broil yant on the theory and research. Probably more than any other economist, he understands how markets work. And he leads much of the Health Care Policy work coming out of harvard medical school, he also sits on harvards benefits committee, where he learns firsthand why markets are not always efficient. Is that fair to say . He also serves on cbos panel of health advisers. A member of the Massachusetts Health connecter board of directors and vice chair of medpac. We have the fortune of having him serve on our advisory board. Hes one of the pioneers of value based insurance design. And the go to researcher for me
Administration, cash sunscene, talked about his new book. Representatives from twitter, facebook and google testified before congress tuesday. As to russias influence on the 2016 elections. On wednesday, two hearings, live on cspan3, 9 30 achl eastern the Senate Intelligence committee. At 2 p. M. , hear testimony from sean edgette of twitter and kent and walker, general counsel for google. Watch them live, online or listen live on the free cspan radio app. A panel of healthcare policy officials shared their views on lowering costs while trying to maintain quality. Topics included changes in payment models and transitioning from a fee for service to a valuebased reimbursement system. This was hosted foundation. Good afternoon. So wed like to go ahead and get started. Im nancy chalkly. Im delighted to welcome you here today. We have an incredible panel of business and policy leaders. They come at the problems from different perspective. But one unifying theme between all of them is their
Committee. At 2 p. M. , hear testimony from sean edgette of twitter and kent andwalker, general counsel for google. Watch them live, online or listen live on the free cspan radio app. A panel of healthcare policy officials shared their views on lowering costs while trying to maintain quality. Topics included changes in payment models and transitioning from a fee for service to a valuebased reimbursement system. This was hosted foundation. Good afternoon. So wed like to go ahead and get started. Im nancy chalkly. Im delighted to welcome you here today. We have an incredible panel of business and policy leaders. They come at the problems from different perspective. But one unifying theme between all of them is their concern for what rising healthcare costs do to americans. And the need to increase value in our Healthcare System. So each of them will present their own ideas of how to increase value or how they are increasing value in the Healthcare System. A nonprofit nonpartisan organiza