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Session 11: Policy Solutions to Cost Shifting in Health Care
Sponsor: NABE Health Economics Roundtable
Presentations
Louis Rossiter: Deficits As Far As the Eye Can See (PDF)
Deborah Chollet: Cost-Shifting in Health Care (PDF)
Richard Scheffler: Consumer-Driven Health Plans (PDF)
Links of Interest
The Schroeder Center for Healthcare Policy
Mathematica Policy Research Inc
The Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets & Consumer Welfare
Speakers
Louis F. Rossiter
Professor and Director, Schroeder Center for Healthcare Policy,
William and Mary College
Louis F. Rossiter is Director of Research at The Center for Excellence in Aging and Geriatric Health and senior research fellow for the Center for Public Policy Research at the College of William and Mary.
For 18 years, Dr. Rossiter taught health economics in graduate programs at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the founding director of the David G. Williamson, Jr. Institute for Health Studies at VCU, has previously served as Virginia’s Secretary of Health and Human Resources and during the Bush administration served as policy deputy for the administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration.
Dr. Rossiter has published more than 50 articles, edited 14 books and serves on the boards of four Virginia health care companies and published a 2001 book, Medicare Managed Care, which concerns changes that will allow beneficiaries to choose private health care plans.
He has served on a large number of federal and state technical advisory panels; as consultant to a variety of prestigious non-profit and for profit corporations, including Merck and Co. and Kaiser Permanente Health Plans.
Dr. Rossiter received his B.A. from Lenoir-Rhyne College, his M.A. in economics from the University of South Carolina, Columbia and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Deborah Chollet
Senior Fellow
Mathematica Policy Research
Deborah Chollet is a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy Research in Washington, D.C., where she conducts research on private health insurance coverage, markets, and regulation.
Richard Scheffler
Distinguished Professor of Health and Public Policy
University of California at Berkeley
Richard Scheffler is Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley and holds the Chair in Healthcare Markets & Consumer Welfare endowed by the Office of the Attorney General for the State of California. He is Director of The Nicholas C. Petris Center On Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare. At Berkeley, he serves as Co-Director of the Scholars in Health Policy Research Program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; he is founding Co-Director of the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) pre- and post-doctoral training programs. Co-directs the NIH-Fogarty Mental Health & Policy Research Training for Czech Post Doctoral Scholars program; the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) pre and postdoctoral training program; and the Edmund S. Muskie Fellowship Program. He served as President and Program Chair of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) 4th World Congress San Francisco, June 2003. His research is on healthcare markets, health insurance, the health work force, mental health economics, and international health system reforms in Western and Eastern Europe. Professor Scheffler is the current recipient of the American Public Health Association’s Carl Taube Award, which honors distinguished contributions to the field of mental health services research. He is a recipient of a senior scientist award from NIMH for work on mental health parity, the economics of the public mental health system in California, managed care in mental health, and the mental health work force. Professor Scheffler has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Rockefeller Scholar and a Scholar in Residence at the Institute of Medicine–National Academy of Sciences. Professor Scheffler has published over a hundred papers and edited and written six books. His forthcoming book is on the future of the health work force –University of California Press.
