The speaker for the OHE’s 17th Annual Lecture was Dr Alan Garber, Director both of Stanford University’s Center for Health Policy and its Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research at the School of Medicine. His remarks focused on the national health care legislation enacted in March 2010 in the US from a unique perspective – as a practicing professor of medicine, one of the world’s leading health economists, and an expert in health care policy.  His overview touched on several of the key issues raised by the new law that relate to coverage, cost, and quality.