Thursday, April 15, 2010

Orszag's Guests During Health Reform Sausage Making


Given Peter Orszag's recent talk at the Economic Club of Washington, I wondered who influenced one major architect of Obama's health reform. My research on visitors to White House Health Czar Nancy-Ann DeParle came out before the bill was passed and signed.

Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein interviewed Orszag. Peter noted the government does not know how to pay for quality but will "throw things against the wall and see what sticks." My guess is Peter knew The Carlyle Group has several affiliates specializing in health care cost control, MulitPlan and Viant. The pandering went on to capital gains taxes. So far the Economic Club has not posted the video of the interview.

Orszag's list is below. It has the distinct taint of influence peddlers and industry sponsors. :

SCHWARZMAN STEPHEN Co-founder Blackstone Group, with
health care affiliates:
Apria Healthcare, Biomet, Stiefel
Labs, Catalent, Emcure, Health
Markets (health insurance),
TeamHealth, and Vanguard Health
Systems (for-profit hospital chain)



ALTMAN ROGER Founder & Chairman Evercore
Partners, a private equity firm. It
owns Diagnostic Imaging Group






CARNAHAN TOM Founder of Wind Capital Group
COLLINS FRANCIS NIH Director









GARDE CATRIONA Assistant to Bono, U2






HEWSON PAUL Bono from U2, Managing Director
of Elevation Partners, a private
equity firm.



HUDSON KATHY Associate Professor at the Johns
Hopkins Berman Bioethics Institute,
Institute of Genetic Medicine and
Department of Pediatrics

IMMELT JEFFREY GE CEO, GE has huge health care
product lines from medical imaging
to consultation

IP GREG Economist.com, U.S. Economics
Editor



LOCKWOOD CHRISTOPHER
Economist.com

MARTIN CARMEL
Assistant secretary for planning,
evaluation & policy development
at the Department of Education

NIX SHEILA Joined global poverty nonprofit
ONE as U.S. executive director in
2009. Deputy governor under


Gov. Rod Blagojevich



ORSZAG JONATHAN Senior Fellow in economic policy
at Center for American Progress.
Orszag serves as a senior managing
director and a member of the Executive
Committee of Compass Lexecon,
an economic consulting firm. In 2009
Compass Lexecon received $407,019
in federal contracts.





Note: Peter Orszag wants health care


to go the route of modeling clinical
care, like econometrics.



THORNTON ERIN global policy director for ONE



TRINGE HEIDI Aide to Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas

BIXBY ROBERT Executive Director Concord Coalition
FOX ALISSA
Senior Vice President, Office of Policy &
Representation, for the Blue Cross
and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA)

GELLIN BRUCE Director of the National Vaccine
Program Office

GREENSTEIN ROBERT Executive director of the Center on
Budget & Policy Priorities (CBPP)

GRUBER JONATHAN MIT Professor contracted by OMB
for $392,000 in health reform
consulting



HALTMEYER KRIS Deputy Executive Director of
Legislative & Regulatory Policy,
Blue Cross & Blue Shield Association

HALVORSON GEORGE Chairman & CEO of Kaiser
Permanente, the nation’s largest
nonprofit health plan & hospital
system



HOFFMAN CHRISTY Service International Employees
Union
JOHNSON JAMES
Served on the board of UnitedHealth
Group. Works for private equity firm
Perseus, which lists 10 healthcare
affiliates in their portfolio. Mr. Johnson
served alongside Gail Wilensky at
UnitedHealth.



KIES KENNETH Lobbyist for Federal Policy Group
-clients include Aetna, Magellan
Health
LEWIS CAYA
Director of Outreach and Public
Health Policy, Health & Human
Services
MACGUINEAS MAYA
President of the Committee for
a Responsible Federal Budget
MADLAND DAVID
Director of the American Worker
Project at American Progress
MINARIK JOSEPH

Senior Vice President and Director
of Research, Committee for
Economic Development



PETROU LAURA HHS senior adviser with Daschle ties

PODESTA JOHN Center for American Progress,
Head of Obama Transition Team,
relative of lobbying Podestas,
Heather-Cigna
Tony-Universal American
REISCHAUER ROBERT
President Urban Institute, ex CBO
Chief, serves on Committee for a
Responsible Federal Budget
RIVLIN ALICE
Brookings Senior Fellow,
Georgetown Professor, ex-CBO,
Vice Chair Federal Reserve,
sits on board of NYSE Euronext



SEROTA SCOTT President & CEO of Blue Cross
Blue Shield Association of America

SMITH THOMAS Past CEO of Voluntary Hospitals
of America, sits on board of several
for-profit health care companies



WILLIAMS RONALD Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer Aetna

GREENSPAN ALAN Former Fed Chief









STERN ANDREW SEIU President, Said in 2006 at
the Brookings Institute , Employer
health insurance is "dying and not
coming back"

HELMSLEY STEPHEN UnitedHealth Group CEO,
ex-Board member James Johnson
met with Orzag, while current board
member Gail Wilensky provided
expert testimony before the Senate
Finance Committee. I did not hear her
verbally declare her numerous conflicts
of interest in her testimony. Gail served
on 6 boards, most health care.
BusinessWeek did a piece highlighting
Stephen Helmsley's Voldemort-like
impact on the public option.

LEAMOND NANCY Executive Vice President for Social
Impact at AARP



ROTHER JOHN Group Executive Officer of Policy &
Strategy for AARP



STEVENS SIMON Executive Vice President of
UnitedHealth Group, Chairman of
UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform,
President of UnitedHealth Group's
Global Health division

WELTERS ANTHONY Executive Vice President of
UnitedHealth Group