The 2021 Healthcare Economics Summit

This year’s Summit will provide insights into dramatic economic and business changes expected in the business of healthcare for the next year and beyond. Student sessions, a roundtable, and some of today’s leading thinkers in free market healthcare, healthcare business innovation and policy and legislation. Free for CUW Students, Faculty, and Staff, and NGHL members.
Event Date: Monday, July 12, 2021, 9:00 am-5:30 pm
Venue: Concordia University Wisconsin, CCES Building
Hosts: Concordia University and Rx Think Tank
2021 Schedule
- 9:00 am-10:00 am: Practitioner Panel: What has 2020 taught us and how are we moving forward, post-pandemic (Andy Hillig, ACHE)
- 10:00 am-10:30 am: NextGen: Healthcare Advocate Program for DPC (Peter Grimes & Patrick Flanagan, Aurora Health Care Group)
- 10:30 am-11:30 am: NGHL Student Panel
- 11:30 am-12:30 pm: LUNCH
- 1:00 pm-2:15 pm Free Market Healthcare
- Opening Remarks: Daniel Sem, Director, Rx Think Tank, Rebecca Kiessling, President Benjamin Rush Institute, James Dunavant, Exec. Director, Free Market Medical Association, Kevin Nicholson, President, No Better Friend
- 2:15 pm-3:45 pm Direct Primary Care—Innovation and Startups
- Leck Shannon, Program Officer in Healthcare, Charles Koch Inst.; David Goldhill, Author of Catastrophic Care, Cofounder & CEO, Sesame; Danish Siddiqui, Founder & CEO, Remedy Now; Indrajit Chaudhury, Founder & CEO, MediCardia
- 4:00 pm-4:45 pm Direct Primary Care—Policy and Legislative Models
- David Balat, Director, Right on Healthcare, Texas Public Policy Forum; Kendall Cotton, CEO, Frontier Institute
- 4:45 pm-5:30 pm WI Legislative Roundtable: Curt Gielow (Moderator)
- Joe Sanfelippo (WI Assembly), Wendy Molaska (WMA, President-elect)