The rising cost of health care is the largest long-term fiscal problem facing our nation. Efforts to control health care costs and reform the delivery system should be system-wide, but Medicare can lead the way. Medicare - the largest purchaser of health care - should act as a catalyst to inject value into the health system and incent the private sector toward change.

Please join Robert Berenson, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, and Len Nichols, Director of the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation, for the release of Making Medicare Sustainable, a collection of policy papers focused on making Medicare a more value-based purchaser.

Making Medicare Sustainable will be distributed to all attendees. Authors include:

Understanding the Medicare Financing Problem
Richard Kronick, Ph.D., University of California at San Diego

Reforming Medicare's Governance to Enhance Value-Based Purchasing
Robert A. Berenson, M.D., Urban Institute
Len M. Nichols, Ph.D., New America Foundation
Tom Emswiler, New America Foundation

Balancing Incentives: Value-Based Purchasing Opportunities in Traditional Medicare
Lawrence P. Casalino, M.D., Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medical College

Value-Based Purchasing in Traditional Medicare: Legal Issues
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, J.D., Washington and Lee University, School of Law

Protecting Medically Vulnerable Older Americans
Chad Boult, M.D., M.PH., M.BA., Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health