We co-founded the Better Healthcare Policy Group, which began as an ad hoc meeting of senior healthcare executives and economists with a common interest in extending the success of the Medicare Advantage program to the under-65 population.
The purpose of the Group is: to design a continuously improving model healthcare coverage, payment and delivery system that will provide more affordable, equitable, higher value, patient-centered care to all Americans while taking social determinants into account; and to communicate that vision to healthcare policy makers, executives, providers and the general public. The Better Healthcare Policy Group consists of these senior healthcare executives, researchers and economists :
- George C. Halvorson – Chair, Institute for InterGroup Understanding; Former CEO, Kaiser-Permanente Health Plans and five other health care delivery and financing organizations; former chair, The International Federation of Health Plans and The Partners for Quality Care.
- Jon M. Kingsdale, PhD. – Senior Strategy Advisor at Wakely Consulting Group., Associate Professor at Boston University and Adjunct Professor at Brown; organized and led the Massachusetts Health Connector, the model for health insurance exchanges under Affordable Care Act (ACA).
- Stephen M. Shortell, PhD. – MBA, MPH – Distinguished Prof. of Health Policy & Management Emeritus, UC-Berkeley, elected member of the National Academy of Medicine; past editor of Health Services Research; past president of the Association for Health Services Research
- Richard M. Scheffler, PhD. – Distinguished Prof. of Health Economics & Public Policy, UC-Berkeley, Founding Director of the Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare.
- Allyson Y Schwartz – former President & CEO of the Better Medicare Alliance and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
- John Toussaint, MD – Executive Chairman, Catalysis Inc.; founding chair of the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality & the Wisconsin Health Information Organization.
- Peter A. Wadsworth – Managing Partner, Amory Associates; former healthcare investment banker & health insurance executive specializing in managed care.
- Gail Wilensky, PhD. –former Administrator of the Medicare & Medicaid and chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; currently trustee, of the United Mine Workers of America’s Combined Benefits Fund; numerous non-profit and corporate boards.