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# Can Health Insurance Innovations Reduce Prices and Drive Cost-Effective Care? 

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March 29, 2017 12 - 1:30 PM EDT 

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Featuring **James C. Robinson**, Leonard D. Schaeffer Endowed Chair in Health Economics and Policy; Director, Berkeley Center for Health Technology, University of California–Berkeley; **Mark V. Pauly**, Bendheim Professor of Health Care Management, Business Economics, and Public Policy, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania; moderated by **Michael F. Cannon**, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute. 

Third-party payers, private and public, have difficulty restraining healthcare prices, which are typically opaque and all over the place. A new insurance feature — known as “reference pricing” or “reverse deductibles” — has dramatically reduced prices, made prices more transparent to consumers, and spurred consumers to switch to lower-cost providers, all by making consumers cost-conscious. Please join us as we discuss this new innovation and direction in health-care pricing.

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