MATTER Workshop: Camelot Lost or Found? Consequences of ACA Dismantling

Kathy Roe and Jack Rovner discuss the potential health market and societal policy developments “lost” by the dismantling of the ACA versus the potential health market and societal policy developments “gained” by current movements toward health insurance market stratification as, for example, permitting possibly renewable, but underwritten short-term limited duration coverage, allowing “association health plans” that enable sole proprietors and small employers to aggregate to access “large group” market coverage, and the like.

Kathy Roe is managing attorney and co-founder of the Chicago law boutique, Health Law Consultancy. She advises health industry participants on health reform, government health programs, health insurance markets and products, and health information privacy and security. Roe applies deep industry experience to structure and document health information technology, business process outsourcing and value-based care delivery and payment arrangements. Roe’s legal career started as a compliance attorney with a publicly-traded life and health insurer as the Clinton Administration attempted national health reform. Moving to private practice, she delivered legal support for the introduction of Medicare+Choice, the implementation of HIPAA, the launch of Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D, and the application of the Affordable Care Act.

Jack Rovner, an attorney with the Chicago law boutique, Health Law Consultancy, assists health industry participants to pinpoint risk and see opportunity in the business of health care. Rovner’s counseling spans health reform, antitrust, fraud and abuse, health data protection, and government health programs. He began his legal career as a health care antitrust litigator and evolved his practice to apply industry insight, deep experience and litigation savvy to deal structuring and client counseling. Rovner is Best Lawyers 2014 Chicago health law “Lawyer of the Year.” Health Law Consultancy—the firm he co-founded—is rated Chicago Metropolitan Tier 1 in health law by U.S. News-Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.”