NYU/UCLA Annual Tax Policy Conference: Tax Law and Health Care Reform

UCLA hosts the First Annual NYU/UCLA Tax Policy Conference: Tax Law and Health Care Reform today:

Panel #1:  Taxation and Health Care Reform: History, Politics, and Comparative Perspective

• Ted Marmor (Yale) & Kieke Okma (NYU), Tax Expenditure in Health Care: Issues, Controversies, Expectations
• Mark A. Peterson (UCLA), The Ideological and Partisan Polarization of Health Care Reform and Tax Policy
  
• Panel Organizer: Eric Zolt (UCLA)

Panel #2:  In the Weeds: Using the Tax Code to Reform Health Care

• David Gamage (UC-Berkeley), The Affordable Care Act’s Effective Taxes on Low- and Moderate-Income Workers
• Amy Monahan (Minnesota),Why Tax High-Cost Employer Health Plans?
• Larry Zelenak (Duke),Choosing Between Tax and Non-Tax Delivery Mechanisms
• Panel Organizer: Deborah Schenk (NYU)

Panel #3:  Health Care Reform and the Future of U.S. Fiscal Federalism

• Brian Galle (Boston College),The Implications of Health Care Reform for U.S. Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: A Preliminary Assessment
• Shanna Rose (NYU),Health Reform as Policy Feedback: Medicaid’s Pivotal Role in the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Plan and the Affordable Care Act
• Alan Weil (National Academy for State Health Policy), Why Don't States Love the Fiscal Terms of the Affordable Care Act?
• Panel Organizer:  Kirk Stark (UCLA)

Panel #4:  Health Care Reform and the Long-Term Fiscal Outlook

• Howard Gleckman (Tax Policy Center),Healthcare and Long-Term Fiscal Outlook
• Daniel Kessler (Stanford), Reforming Medicare
• Mark Pauly (Pennsylvania), The Real Burden of Tax Financed Medical Care in the United States
• Panel Organizer: Daniel Shaviro (NYU)