CMA's 2020 National Voices of Medicare Summit & Senator Jay Rockefeller Lecture
The Center for Medicare Advocacy (CMA) held its 7th annual National Voices of Medicare Summit & Senator Jay Rockefeller Lecture via virtual presentation on April 30.
The Summit allowed leading experts and advocates to consider best practices, challenges and successes in efforts to improve access to quality health coverage and care, especially in these trying times. The 2020 Virtual Summit focused on the following concepts:
- How can Medicare be improved for all people who qualify, now and in the future?
- What was the original vision and promise of Medicare?
- Is Medicare as a social insurance program a thing of the past?
- Will Medicare be allowed to “wither on the vine,” as Newt Gingrich suggested?
- Should Medicare be the model for universal coverage?
This year’s Senator Jay Rockefeller Lecturer was Wendell Potter. Mr. Potter is a former health insurance company executive who walked away from his job in 2008 after what he has described as a crisis of conscience. In June of 2009, he went public with what he knew about insurance industry practices in a riveting Congressional testimony.
The 2020 Senator Jay Rockefeller Lecturer is sponsored by The John A. Hartford Foundation.
To go to the Virtual Summit slides and presenter materials, click here.
To learn about JAHF's support of CMA, click here.
