Q&A Session Following the Opening Keynote at the 2026 WCRI Issues and Research Conference

Following his opening keynote at the 2026 Workers’ Compensation Research Institute Issues and Research Conference, Harvard health economist Dr. Benjamin Sommers sat down with WCRI CEO Ramona Tanabe for an extended Q&A session that drew pointed questions from the audience. If his keynote laid out the landscape of what’s changing in American health coverage, the discussion that followed explored the practical consequences — for states, for hospitals, for workers’ comp carriers, and for the patients caught in between.

Read Bob Wilson's full review here.  (And see here for his analysis of the keynote address itself.)