Alice Rivlin

IN A NUTSHELL

Renowned economist, MacArthur Genius, former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board Alice Rivlin will share the profound impacts of ranking health as an existential value.

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ABOUT ALICE

Renowned economist—and also MacArthur Genius, former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board— Alice Rivlin has a special gift for communicating the problems of healthcare spending. Working across party lines, she has a pragmatic and commonsensical approach to achieving fiscal sanity in the health care arena, while understanding the civic society infrastructural investments needed to improve health outcomes. She is the director of the Center for Health Policy, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies, and a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. She is also a Visiting Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.

LEARN MORE

Obamacare: The Business World’s Biggest Disruptor
Rivlin A. Fortune Magazine. 2015.

A Partisan Fight over Medicare? Maybe Not
Rivlin A. Health 360. 2015.

Strengthening Medicare for 2030: Could Improving Choice and Competition
in Medicare Advantage be the Future of Medicare?
Rivlin A, Daniel W. Center for Health Policy at Brookings. 2015.

Health Policy Issue Brief, “Improving Health While Reducing Cost Growth: What is Possible?”
Rivlin A, McClellan M. Brookings Institution. 2014.

A Bipartisan Rx for Patient-Centered Care and System-Wide Cost Containment
Frist B, Domenici PV, Dascle T. Bipartisan Policy Center. 2013.

Time to Act: Investing in our Children and Communities
RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America Report, (co-chair, Alice Rivlin). 2014.

Beyond Health Care
RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America Report, (co-chair, Alice Rivlin). 2009.

Restoring Fiscal Sanity: The Health Spending Challenge
Rivlin A, Antos JR, (eds.) Brookings Institution Press. 2007.

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Fiscally Sane Health Economist