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Abstract:
Mr. Etheredge will present an overview of how national health
care policy will have progressed through 4 eras from 1975-2005
along with a general model and leading examples for how
research and other factors have influenced this evolution
of new periods, paradigms, and policies.
Biosketch:
Lynn Etheredge is an independent consultant working on health
care and social policy issues. His career started at the
White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). During
the Nixon and Ford administrations, he was OMB’s principal
analyst for Medicare and Medicaid and led its staff work
on national health insurance proposals. He returned to OMB
as a senior career executive and headed its professional
health staff in the Carter and Reagan administrations. He
was a co-author of the Jackson Hole Group’s proposals
for healthcare reform and a co-founder of the Health Insurance
Reform Project at George Washington University. During the
last several years, Lynn has authored policy studies about
Medicare reform, quality of care, consumer health information
strategies, health insurance and flexible benefits tax credits,
Medicaid, and public policies for the baby boom generation’s
retirement. He is author of more than 70 publications and
is a graduate of Swarthmore College.
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