l-r: Lloyd Dean, Gregory Adams, Wade Rose, Lenny Mendonca, Lynn Jimenez

CED, in partnership with the Bay Area Council hosted a discussion on the importance of business engagement in the health-care reform debate. The forum featured a presentation on the business case for health care reform by Ken Shachmut, Executive Vice President of Safeway Health, followed by a panel of experts who discussed what they see as necessary components of a final health care bill.

Speakers

• Lloyd Dean, President & CEO, Catholic Healthcare West and Chairman of the Bay Area Council [play video]
• Charles E.M. Kolb, President, Committee for Economic Development [play video]
• Robert Chess, Chairman, Nektar Therapeutics [play video]
• Gregory Adams, Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals, President Northern California and Chairman of the BAC Healthcare Committee [play video]
• Ken Shachmut, Executive Vice President of Safeway Health [play part 1] [play part 2] [play part 3] [play part 4]
• Alain Enthoven, Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, Stanford University, Center for Health Policy [play part 1] [play part 2]

Panelists

• Moderator: Lynn Jimenez, Anchor, KGO's Morning News
• Lenny Mendonca, Chairman, McKinsey Global Institute
• Wade Rose, VP Public Policy & Advocacy, Catholic Healthcare West
• Gregory Adams, Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals, President Northern California and Chairman of the BAC Healthcare Committee
• Lloyd Dean, President & CEO, Catholic Healthcare West and Chairman of the Bay Area Council
  [play part 1] [play part 2] [play part 3] [play part 4]
  

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