NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Research Opportunities Posed by Health Reform
March 31 - April 1, 2011
NBER
Feldstein Conference Room, Second Floor
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Thursday, March 31
8:15 am	Shuttle Vans Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Mark Pauly, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	Insurance Market Reform and the Individual Mandate
10:30 am	Break
11:00 pm	Jonathan Gruber, MIT and NBER
	Medicaid expansions, Tax subsidies and coverage expansion
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Leemore Dafny, Northwestern University and NBER
	Exchanges and Insurance Market Competition
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Michael Chernew, Harvard University and NBER
	Wellness and Insurance Design Issues
5:00 pm	Adjourn
5:15 pm	Shuttle Vans Depart from the NBER for The Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:30 pm	Group Dinner at Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd. in Cambridge (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, April 1
7:45 am	Shuttle Vans Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Mark Duggan, University of Maryland and NBER
	Impacts on Medicare
10:00 am	Break
10:30 am	David Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
	Cost Control Innovations, Delivery System Reform Provisions
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Joseph Newhouse, Harvard University and NBER
	Provider Workforce Issues
2:30 pm	Adjourn
Partial funding for this meeting was provided by National Institute on Aging