Faus & Moliner at the IBA Annual Conference in Washington, DC

At this year’s Annual Conference of the International Bar Association, which was held in Washington the week of 18-23 of September, the Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee has organized a Session under the title “Providing and paying for healthcare: public, private or something in between? Obamacare and beyond”.

This session saught to explain the goal of the societies of providing their people with high-quality, comprehensive and affordable healthcare in different ways. It debated questions such as “How many should be covered and for what conditions? At what cost? Who should pay? Who should provide?” It also explored some of the different approaches followed by different countries – from private/private to public/public and the variations in-between, including the impact of Obamacare on paying for and providing healthcare in the USA.

Jordi Faus participated as co-moderator of the session, in which Dr. Antoni Gilabert, from the Catalan Heath Service, spoke about what are the next challenges that public payors face in Europe in connection with financing new products.