In bed with the elephant: Health care and social solidarity in the neighbourhood of the United States
Osler Lecture 2002
Sponsored by the UU直播 Faculty of Medicine
UWE REINHARDT
James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics and Political Affairs at Princeton University
In Bed with the Elephant: Health Care and Social Solidarity in the Neighbourhood of the United States
Wednesday, November 6, 2002
6:00 p.m.
R. Palmer Howard Theatre
McIntyre Medical Building
3655, promenade Sir William Osler
The public is welcome. Admission is free.
Uwe Reinhardt brings to the field of health economics and health policy a uniquely international experience. A native of Germany, he immigrated to Canada in 1959, and worked in Montreal and Halifax to finance his studies. With a B. Com. from the University of Saskatchewan and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in hand, he went on to earn a PhD from Yale University in economics in 1970, and joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1969. Given this background, it is not surprising that Prof. Reinhardt's numerous publications take a comprehensive and comparative approach to issues of health care financing. Recent articles in Health Affairs, The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Medical Care Research and Reviews (to name only a few) tackle many of the fundamental assumptions underlying current public debates, such as the notions of "cost-control" and "efficiency" in hospitals, the conventional wisdom on home care versus hospital convalescence, and the anticipated impact of the ageing baby-boomer generation. Whether assessing the impact of managed care on physicians, the future of the uninsured and under-insured in America, or the role of the pharmaceutical industry, Prof. Reinhardt brings the leaven of an international perspective and penetrating social and political analysis to a debate which often is mired in dollars and cents.
Professor Reinhardt has served on a number of government committees and commissions in the United States, including the National Council on Health Care Technology, the Physician Payment Review Commission, and the National Advisory Council for Health Care Policy, Research and Evaluation for the Agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. On the non-governmental side, he is a member of think-tanks such as the Council on the Economic Impact of Health Reform, and the Washington-based National Institute of Health-Care Management, which track the economic impact of current trends in health-care delivery and cost control; and the Pew Health Professions Commission, which explores the implication of health-systems change on the health workforce. He also serves on the External Advisory Panel for Health, Nutrition and Population of The World Bank, The Commonwealth Fund's International Program in Health Policy, and the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, he currently serves on the Institute's Board on Health Care Services, which guides the Institute's research in health-services research. He is a past president and a Distinguished Fellow of the Association of Health Services Research, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA).
