After much heated debate on the U.S. debt limit, the Budget Control Act of 2011 was passed on August 2, 2011, containing more than $900 billion in federal spending reductions over 10 years. The law also established the 12-person “super committee” charged with finding more than $1 trillion in additional savings. What exactly is called for in the law? What are the implications for health care programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? This briefing addressed these and related questions. Cosponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform, The Commonwealth Fund, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the SCAN Foundation.

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The panel was comoderated by Ed Howard of the Alliance for Health Reform and Diane Rowland of the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Ed Howard
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Diane Rowland
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Katherine Hayes, George Washington University
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Bill Hoagland, vice president at CIGNA and former staff director of the Senate Budget Committee
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Bob Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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Gail Wilensky, Project HOPE and former administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS)
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Q&A, session 1
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Dean Rosen, Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti Inc. and former chief health care advisor to then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist
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Chris Jennings,Jennings Policy Strategies and former senior health care advisor to President Bill Clinton.
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Q&A, session 2
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