The Ross Alumni Club of DC is excited to announce that we have partnered with Ross Professor Thomas Buchmueller to host a U.S. Health Policy Discussion and Networking Event featuring NPR’s Julie Rovner. Professor Buchmueller is leading a residential program of study across various graduate-level U-M schools and will be spending the entire week visiting Health Policy experts in DC. This evening will bring together current students and health policy experts affiliated with the program, along with our great Ross DC alumni, for an evening of discussion and networking.
Space is limited, so please register today! The event is free and includes drinks and light appetizers. Contact David Erbstein (erbstein@umich.edu) with event questions, and Emily Neubig (eneubig@gmail.com) with registration questions.
Please note that the Met Club has a strict policy on dress code; “for gentlemen, this means the wearing of a suit, jacket or blazer and neck tie (string ties, ascots, and turtlenecks are not acceptable), and for ladies dresses, suits or pants with jackets of equivalent formality.” Please also note that “the use of electronic devices is prohibited in dining and public areas of the Clubhouse”
U.S. Health Care Policy Residential Program DC Details
Although the US has the most market-oriented health care system in the world, government involvement in health care is pervasive. As a result, it is important for students who are interested in a career in health care to understand key health care policy issues as well as the institutional and political context in which these policies are crafted. The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to these issues.
The course is centered on a week long residential in Washington DC, where we will attend presentations by a broad range of experts, representing a diversity of organizational and political perspectives. The speakers will include corporate government relations specialists, Congressional staffers, policy analysts from the White House and various government agencies, think tanks, the media and lobbying and advocacy organizations.
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Julie Rovner, the Robin Toner Distinguished Fellow, is Chief Washington Correspondent for Kaiser Health News. She joined KHN after 16 years as health policy correspondent for NPR, where she helped lead the network’s coverage of the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book Health Care Politics and Policy A-Z, now in its third edition. In 2005, she was awarded the National Press Foundation’s Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting of Congress.
Professor Thomas Buchmueller is the Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy and Chair of Business Economics and Public Policy at Ross. He is a health economist who is an expert on the economics of health insurance and related public policies. He has done extensive research on the link between health insurance and the labor market in the U.S., consumer demand for health insurance, the interaction between public policies and private insurance markets, and health care reform.
