Schedule: Day Two
Friday, April 27, 2007
Session III: Law and Policy
(Chair: Sadath Sayeed)
9:00: Welcome and overview of Day 2
- Dan Brock, Director, Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health
9:15 Tort law and individual responsibility for health
- Michelle Mello, Harvard University
Case Study: West Virginia’s Medicaid “Personal Responsibility Agreement”
9:45 — 10:15
- Nancy Atkins, Former Commissioner of Medical Services, West Virginia
10: 15 Perspectives on the role of personal responsibility for health in West Virginia’s Medicaid initiative
- Jim Frogue, Center for Health Transformation
- Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, RAND Corporation
11:00 — 11: 15 Coffee Break
11:15 — 12:30 Continuation
- Joan Alker, Georgetown University
- Robert Steinbrook, New England Journal of Medicine
- Amy Brodkey, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Audience Discussion
12:30— 1:30 Lunch
Session IV: The Role of Personal Responsibility in Health Policy
(Chair: Daniel Wikler, Harvard University)
1:30 Responsibility for Health: Why America Lags Behind
- Christopher Murray, Harvard University
2:00 Public attitudes on responsibility for health
- Paul Dolan, Imperial College (London)
- Sarah Gollust, Univesity of Michigan
2:45 The Doctors’ Role
- Ole F. Norheim, University of Bergen
3:00 Perspectives on Personal Responsibility and Health Policy
- Dan Beauchamp, University of North Carolina
- Jacob Sullum, Reason Magazine
- Richard Daynard, Northeastern University
3:45 — 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 Perspectives on Personal Responsibility and Health Policy (continued)
- Richard Zeckhauser, Harvard University
- Ronald Bayer, Columbia University
- Norman Daniels, Harvard university
- Audience discussion
5:30 The Libertarian “Nanny State”
- Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago and Harvard University
6:00 Close