ยป Nexus Journal Legal Symposium 2012

HEALTHY DECISION OR UNHEALTHY OVERSIGHT?:
A Legal Debate On The Affordable Care Act and the Impact of the Supreme Court's Recent Decision

October 19, 2012
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Presented by Chapman University Fowler School of Law's Nexus Journal of Law and Policy

California MCLE credit (materials available by clicking on the speakers title)

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Symposium Schedule

Check-in & Registration (8:30 - 9:00 a.m.)

Introduction by Professor David Dowling (9:00 - 9:15 a.m.)

Opening Keynote Presentation: The Triple Aim Challenge: Better Health, Better Care, Lower Cost (9:15 - 10:15 a.m.) 

  • Diana S. Dooley (Secretary, California Health and Human Services Agency)
  • Moderator: Dr. Tom Campbell (Dean and Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Law and Professor of Economics, Chapman University School of Law)

Panel I: Constitutional Issues and Future Litigation Around the ACA (10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.) 

Chapman Dialogue Lunch and Keynote Speaker: After Obamacare: Lessons of the VA for Health Care Reform (11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.) 

  • Phillip Longman (Senior Research Fellow, New American Foundation)
  • Moderator: Joel Marrero (Instructor, Military Law and Policy Institute, Chapman University)

Panel II: Practical Implications: How The ACA will Affect Key Players in Health Care (2:00 - 3:45 p.m.) 

Break: Cookies & Refreshments (3:45 - 4:00 p.m.)

Panel III: ACA's Effects on Expansion of Care to the Uninsured (4:00 - 5:30 p.m.) 

  • Ellen Wu (Executive Director, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network), "Health Equity and the ACA"
  • Kiwon Yoo (Policy Director, Insure the Uninsured Project), "The Affordable Care Act: How it will Help the Uninsured"
  • Joel Torrez, Jr. (Manager, Health Policy, The Coalition of Orange County Community Health Centers), "The Clinics and the Uninsured"
  • Moderator: Marisa Cianciarulo (Professor of Law and Director, Family Protection Clinic)

"En Banc" Reception: Cocktails and Appetizers for all guest, presenters, faculty and students (5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.)

Registration Information

Registration is now closed for this event.

MCLE Continuing Education Credit: This program qualifies for general California MCLE credit for attorneys. A Uniform Certificate of Attendance will be provided to attendees at the conference. Please include what parts of the day you will be attending if you require MCLE credit.

If you are unable to make it to the symposium you can watch a live Webcast of the Symposium at www.chapman.edu/law. Must attend live event to receive MCLE credit.


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Diana S. Dooley

Diana Dooley began her professional career in public service as an analyst with the State Personnel Board. In 1975, she was appointed to the staff of Governor Jerry Brown where she served as Legislative Secretary and Special Advisor until the end of his term in 1982. From 1983 to 2010, she worked in the private sector as the owner of a public relations and advertising agency and later as an attorney in private practice. She also served as General Counsel for a children’s hospital, and CEO of the California Children’s Hospital Association. Dooley returned to public service in 2011 when she was appointed by Governor Brown to serve as Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency. Dooley serves on many boards and commissions including as Chair of the California Health Benefit Exchange.
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Phillip Longman

Phillip Longman is a Senior Research Fellow with the New America Foundation’s Health Policy Program where he currently concentrates on delivery system reform. Formerly a senior writer and deputy assistant managing editor at U.S. News & World Report, he has won numerous awards for his business and financial writing, including UCLA's Gerald Loeb Award, and the top prize for investigative journalism from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He is a graduate of Oberlin College, and was also a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University. His work on health care includes Best Care Anywhere. The book chronicles the quality transformation of the Veterans Health Administration and applies its lessons for reforming the U.S. health care system as a whole.