Highlights of the meeting (summary) (pdf)

 

Agenda:

 

Monday 21 November 2011

 

Session 1 – Key challenges for sustainable health care expenditure

 

Presentations by:

• Klaus-Dirk Henke, Technical University of Berlin.
• Joseph White, Department Chair, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Director of the Center for Policy Studies, Case Western Reserve University.

 

Session 2 – Macro-health system design: National health services, social insurance, multiple competing insurers, single payor – Is there an optimal system?

 

Presentations by:

• Joe Kutzin, Co-ordinator, Health Financing Policy, World Health Organisation.
• Michael Borowitz, OECD, ELS.
• Patrick Jeurissen, Co-ordinator strategy and knowledge management group, Economic Affairs and Labour Market Policy Department, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, Netherlands.
• Sun Min Kim, Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA), Korea (Korea's Single Payer Insurance Reform).
• Trine Vig, Head of Section, Centre for Health Economics, Ministry of Health, Denmark.

 

Session 3 – The role of ministries of finance in setting health care expenditure levels

 

Presentations by:

• Roberto Astolfi, OECD, ELS.
• Christer Pettersson, Ministry of Finance, Sweden.
• Clive Smee, University of Surrey, United Kingdom.
• Dirk Goepffarth, Germany.
• Anneli Ratnik, Ministry of Finance, Estonia.

 

Session 4 – Improving the efficiency of health systems

 

Presentations by:

• Mark Pearson, OECD, ELS.
• Michael Borowitz, OECD, ELS.
• Ankit Kumar, OECD, ELS.
• John Henderson, Department of Health, United Kingdom.
• Valerie Paris, OECD, ELS.
• Commentator: Patricia Moser, Lead Health Specialist, Poverty Reduction, Gender and Social Development Division, Asian Development Bank.

 

Tuesday 22 November 2011 - AM

 

Session 5 – Fiscal space for health expenditures

 

Presentations by:

• Joseph White, Department Chair, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Director of the Center for Policy Studies, Case Western Reserve University.
• Edwin Lau, OECD, GOV-BUD.
• Clive Smee, University of Surrey, United Kingdom.
• Jean-Louis Rey, Head of Service and Deputy Director, Social Security Directorate, Ministry of Labour, Employment and Health, France ("La CSG" - French text only)
• Charlotte Hougaard Møeller, Ministry of Finance, Denmark.
• Commentator: Maureen Lewis, Economic Advisor, World Bank.

 

Session 6 – Work Programme: Discussion paper - GOV/PGC/SBO(2011)10

Presentation by:

• Edwin Lau, OECD, GOV-BUD ("Restoring Public Finances" - GOV/PGC/SBO(2011)2/FINAL)

Tuesday 22 November 2011 - PM

Special session jointly held by the SBO, the Health Committee, and the Korea Institute of Public Finance

Fiscal consolidation in the health care sector: successful case studies, their cause and fiscal impact

 

Case studies on fiscal sustainability in the health sector

 

Presentations by:

• Korea: overview of health care system and fiscal consolidation efforts in the health sector [Eunkyeong Lee, Korea Institute of Public Finance].
• United Kingdom: New primary care reforms; Health technology assessment and practice guidelines and the role of NICE covered in more detail [John Henderson, Department of Health, Carole Longson, Director of the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation, UK National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE)].
• Estonia: Primary care reforms, DRGs and move to single payor [Triin Habicht, Estonian Health Insurance Fund, Triin Habicht, Estonian Ministry of Finance].
• France: Expansion of tax base for contributions; DRGs and pay for performance; generic uptake of pharmaceuticals; strengthening primary care systems [Dominique Polton, French National Health Insurance Fund (CNAMTS), Valérie Paris, OECD, ELS].