to my left is joe antos, he's the wilson h. taylor scholar in health care and retirement policy at the american enterprise institute. joe is going to help us understand what factors are driving health care costs. to my far left is jeff sellberg executive director of the peterson center on health care. jeff is going to address the various programs and approaches that are already underway and the strategies to keeping health care costs at a manageable level. and to my right, i have already introduced somewhat my co-moderator, the founder of the kaiser family foundation. he is a member of the institute of medicine and was commissioner of the department of human services for new jersey. he was director of health and human services at charitable trusts and also vice president of the robert wood johnson administration, and also served in the carter administration. so drew is going to start us off by giving us perspective on the issue of health care costs. and you also received a copy of that on your way in. i'm going to turn it over t

we will turn out to joe antos who will talk to us about what is driving health care costs. joe: thank you. thank you, maryland andrew, and -- maryland, and drew, and it is great to be here to dr. people about this topic. it is -- to talk to people about this topic. it is great to be your to talk about the reality of this topic in this country, which as drew said, is bouncing back up. which is good news and bad news, of course, depending on who you are and how you look at it. everybody has their favorite slide. how do you do it? oh, ok. good. here is one of my favorite sites. it shows health spending growing as a percentage of gdp. it is a lot smoother than drew's slide, but it tells the same story. i will try to describe some of the many factors that people have suggested that have continued into what really is pretty much a relentless, steady growth in health care spending over the past 35 years, which is as far back as the data really take us. why isn't it going forward? can you help me? i had it backwards. [laughs] which ended up? i'm an economist, so that probably tells

we're going to turn now to joe antos, who is going to talk to us about what is driving health care costsk you. thank you, marilyn and drew. it's a pleasure to be here to talk about this topic. it's always good for people to begin to come to grips with reality about health care spending in this country which is, as drew said it's bouncing back up. which is good news and bad news, of course, depending on who you are and how you look at it. everybody has their favorite slide -- let's see -- how do you do it? oh. okay, good. so here's one of my favorite slides. this shows health spending growing as a percentage of gdp. it's a lot smoother than drew's slide, but it basically tells the same story. i will try to describe some of the many factors that people have suggested that have contributed to what really is pretty much a relentless steady growth in health care spending over the past 55 years, which is as far back as the data really takes us. why isn't it going forward? can you help me? i had it backwards. which end is up? i'm an economist so that really tells you something. here's gary's sl