If you missed Washington Policy Center's 2009 Small Business Conference last Tuesday you can see a video of some of the panel discussions here. You can subscribe to WPC's weekly email letter at the same link.

I was able to attend several sessions of the conference, including the panel discussion on health care. The panel spent a lot of time talking about ways to increase competition among health insurers. I would have appreciated more discussion about the moral hazard problem inherent in insurance -- a primary cause for increasing health costs. I sat by State Senator Randi Becker (2nd District, Eatonville). Senator Becker is a retired health care worker and understand's the system's problems well. Add her to the short of list of state politicians to look to for solutions to the health care mess. I have previously posted about another one, State Representative Doug Ericksen (42nd District, Ferndale) who understands the health care system well and puts health savings accounts at the top of his list of solutions.