Alaska’s high healthcare costs: Solutions & Overhauls
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The final panel discussion about solutions to Alaska’s high health care costs. This session explored systemic changes, such as the establishment of a single-payer system, addressing the 80th percentile rule, and establishment of an Alaska Health Care Authority.
The final panel discussion about solutions to Alaska’s high health care costs. This session explored systemic changes, such as the establishment of a single-payer system, addressing the 80th percentile rule, and establishment of an Alaska Health Care Authority. This discussion was quite long so you can find the three topics separated into 3 different audio files below.
The 80th Percentile Rule
Alaska Health Care Authority
Single Payer System
GUESTS:
Thea Agnew Bemben, Anchorage small business owner
Albert Fogle, former employee benefits consultant/health insurance broker and former President of Alaska Association of Heath Underwriters
Dr. Jennifer Perkins, family practitioner at Alaska Native Medical Center and organizer of Alaska Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program
Julie Taylor, CEO of Alaska Regional Hospital
Prof. Ralph Townsend, Director of the University of Alaska’s Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
Dr. Anne Zink, Medical Director, Mat-Su Emergency Physicians, and former President of the Alaska Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians
Moderator:
Dr. Thad Woodard, pediatrician and host of “Line One—Your Health Connection”
HOSTS:
LINKS:
Alaska Common Ground’s series “Can Alaska’s High Healthcare Costs Be Cured?”
RECORDED: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 49th State Brewing Company.
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