SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Health Insurance Exchanges: House or Senate Style?
January 8, 20010
Jon Kingsdale is the executive director of the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, an independent authority established in 2006 under Massachusetts’ landmark health reform legislation. As the founding executive director, he leads key initiatives to make health insurance universally available and to reform health care financing in Massachusetts. As a senior executive at the Tufts Health Plans for 20 years, Mr. Kingsdale was responsible for strategic planning, product development, public affairs and government relations. Prior to Tufts Health Plan, he worked in strategic planning and reimbursement at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, researched hospital finances at the Harvard School of Public Health, consulted on health policy issues in Washington, D.C., and worked as a reporter for Forbes Magazine. He received a doctorate in economic history from the University of Michigan and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Boston University School of Public Health, and Tufts University School of Medicine.
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, J.D., holds the Robert L. Willett Family Professorship of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. He is a coauthor of a casebook, Health Law, used widely throughout the United States in teaching health law and now in its sixth edition. He is also the author of Health Care at Risk, A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement, Health Care Coverage Determinations: An International Comparative Study, Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics, and numerous articles and book chapters on health care regulation and comparative health law and policy. He has written or is writing monographs on legal issues in health care reform for a number of other organizations including the National Academy of Public Administration and National Academy of Social Insurance, the Fresh Thinking Project, the Urban Institute and New America Foundation, and Academy Health.
Philip Vogel is a senior vice president at CBIA Service Corp., a division of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA). Prior to that, he spent 12 years with two major insurance companies. Mr. Vogel Joined CBIA in 1987 and is responsible for all products and services offered to businesses through the CBIA Service Corp. including a health insurance program for small businesses that uses CBIA Service Corp.’s purchasing power. CBIA has over 10,000 member companies.He spearheaded his division’s development of a statewide, multi-vendor health insurance purchasing alliance in Connecticut which is the first of its kind in the state and one of the first in the country. Called CBIA Health Connections, it joins four of Connecticut’s leading health care companies in giving each of the employees of companies with 3 to 100 employees their choice from among any of the four participating health care companies’ programs. He holds a B.A. in economics from Ohio Wesleyan and received his CLU in 1979.