Health & Wealth:
The Use of Tax Policy to Shift Responsibility to the Individual
Friday February 23rd ..............................................................................Washington, DC
Schedule:
10:00 – 10:30:
Registration
10:30 – 11:30:
The Health Savings Account Revolution
12:00 – 1:00:
Current Issues in Individual Retirement Account Planning
1:00 – 1:45:
Keynote Address: Professor George Yin
2:00 – 3:00:
Using Tax Policy to Implement Health and Retirement Policy
Attendance:
The event is FREE and open to the public.
RSVP required.
Email: cls@law.gwu.edu.
Unable to attend?
Web-casting available upon request.
Location:
All events will be held in the Faculty Conference Center, located on the fifth floor of 2000 H Street, NW, Washington, DC.
Contact Info:
(703) 965-5809
www.law.gwu.edu/stdg/cls/
The Corporate & Business Law Society at The George Washington University Law School invites you to “Health & Wealth” on Friday, February 23, 2007.
The Event is sponsored by the Corporate & Business Law Society and is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. RSVPs are required.
For more information or to RSVP, email cls@law.gwu.edu.
The Health Savings Account Revolution
Professor of Health Economics, George Washington University
President, Galen Institute
Health Economist, Author of Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Healthcare (Cato, 2006)
Co-sponsored by the GW Health Law Society
Our panel of experts will discuss the drastic increase in the use of HSAs, their effect on the healt hcare system, and the prudence of establishing such a system.
Current Issues in IRA Planning
Principal, Groom Law Group, Chartered
Morgan Lewis
Tom Reeder
Benefits Tax Counsel, US Dept. of Treasury
Co-sponsored by the DC Young ERISA Lawyers Lunch Group
* Lunch provided courtesy of CBLS
Our industry insiders explore the recent challenges and developments surrounding IRAs from a practitioner’s perspective.
Keynote Address
Edwin S. Cohen Distinguished Professor of Law & Taxation
Class of 1966 Research Professor
University of Virginia Law School
* Dessert service provided courtesy of CBLS
Using the Tax Code to Implement Health & Retirement Policy
Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
Professor, Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law
Director, School of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University
Panelists comment on the budgetary and policy implications of the push towards a system of private accounts.