Sen. Thillis on behalf of the chair, i will turn to our Witness Panel productions. Our first witness is professor of law at the Antonin Scalia school of law at george mason university. He has published extensively on ip law. Next, mark dean, cofounder of a medical device incubator. Mr. Dean is a coinventor on two hundred 50 issued and pending u. S. Patents. Then we have david jones, executive director of a coalition of innovative hightechnology Companies Like google, intel, microsoft and adobe. Then we will hear from david cap. He is director of the u. S. Patent and trademark office. If you all will stand very briefly so we can swear you in. Do you swear and affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth . Saint thank you all. You may be seated. Thank you Ranking Member tills and members of the subcommittee. In q4 this opportunity to speak with you today about the pressing need for reform of section 1 and why congress shoul
Ladies and gentlemen, coming. Our topic today is medicare, the largest care player in the american, a huge growing federal entitlement. And a little more than ten years, medicare will increase in enrollment from 65 million to nearly 80 million enrollees and total Program Spending will double today, roughly. Its 1 trillion. And within ten years it will be nearly 2 trillion. At the same time, medicare is changing. Today, half of all seniors are enrolled in Medicare Advantage or a system of private coverage, which is the alternative to traditional medicare. And Medicare Advantage is a defined contribution. And what that means is, is that the government makes a contribution on behalf of a beneficiary to the beneficiary chosen plan. Given current trends, Medicare Advantage will soon be the dominant form of medicare. The question before the house and before the nation is a very, very big one. That is, how do we provide high quality medical care to a huge and, rapidly growing older population
Thanks so much for joining us today. We are happy to present an equity in our Health Care System. Dr. David answer the death gap how inequality kills and dr. Thomas fisher the emergency a year of healing and heartbreak in a chicago e. R. With Katherine Davis with crains dr. Ansell and fishers books be available for sale and signing at the book sales and signing tent marked in in our nancy nancy on your maps david ansell is the Senior Vice President associate provost for Community Health equity at Rush University Medical Center in chicago. He is the author of the death gap how inequality kills and county life death and politics at chicagos public hospital. Thomas l is a Board Certified emergency medicine physician from chicago, and over his career, he has to improve health care as Academic Health insurance, executive health care, company and white house fellow, the first term of the Obama Administration in the emergency. Lets by Penguin Random random house our moderator is kathryn kathe
Thanks so much for joining us today. We are happy to present an equity in our Health Care System. Dr. David answer the death gap how inequality kills and dr. Thomas fisher the emergency a year of healing and heartbreak in a chicago e. R. With Katherine Davis with crains dr. Ansell and fishers books be available for sale and signing at the book sales and signing tent marked in in our nancy nancy on your maps david ansell is the Senior Vice President associate provost for Community Health equity at Rush University Medical Center in chicago. He is the author of the death gap how inequality kills and county life death and politics at chicagos public hospital. Thomas l is a Board Certified emergency medicine physician from chicago, and over his career, he has to improve health care as Academic Health insurance, executive health care, company and white house fellow, the first term of the Obama Administration in the emergency. Lets by Penguin Random random house our moderator is kathryn kathe
Largest care player in the american, a huge growing federal entitlement. And a little more than ten years, medicare will increase in enrollment from 65 million to nearly 80 million enrollees and total Program Spending will double today, roughly. Its 1 trillion. And within ten years it will be nearly 2 trillion. At the same time, medicare is changing. Today, half of all seniors are enrolled in Medicare Advantage or a system of private coverage, which is the alternative to traditional medicare. And Medicare Advantage is a defined contribution. And what that means is, is that the government makes a contribution on behalf of a beneficiary to the beneficiary chosen plan. Given current trends, Medicare Advantage will soon be the dominant form of medicare. The question before the house and before the nation is a very, very big one. That is, how do we provide high quality medical care to a huge and, rapidly growing older population, often at a cost that is affordable not only to seniors, but a