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Friday, September 3, 2010 |  |
Speaking of Books
This series features interviews with important authors writing on subjects of vital interest to anyone interested in the health and financial future of America.
June 29, 2010— with authors Mark Gaunya and Jennifer BorislowThis video features Mark Gaunya and Jennifer Borislow being interviewed by David Saltzman. They explore the landscape of their new book Bend The Healthcare Trend and explain how and why consumer-driven health plans work. Everyone is responsible for a small part of health care spending, and individuals have the power to turn the situation around. Consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) put knowledge and power back into people's hands. The video is broken into seven parts for your viewing convenience.
July 9, 2009—with author Hal Luft (MP3)
This recording presents an in-depth interview with author Hal Luft who presents a comprehensive new proposal that would create a system with the quality of care patients want, the flexibility clinicians need and the internal dynamics to continually improve the value of health care. SecureChoice is a plan that restructures payment for medical care, harnessing the flexibility and responsiveness of the market by aligning the incentives of clinicians, hospitals and insurers with those of the patient. It uses the accountability of government to ensure transparency, competition and equity.
June 11, 2009—with author David Gracer (MP3)
This recording features David Gracer, author of Your Health Matters. Listen in and sort through the myths, secrets and misconception of the U.S. health care system to learn what you need to know to make wise decisions about your health care future. In these pages you will find a simple understanding of U.S. health care, how you can control it and how the outcome of the health care debate may determine the quality and length of your life. Also find out how the United States compares to the health care systems in other modern nations, such as Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, France and Germany. America does not have a health care quality crisis—it’s the cost of health care that’s the issue. Tomorrow’s health care, when compared to today, can be more exciting, more beneficial, save more lives, reduce more suffering and give you more for your health care dollar if you make the right choice.
This recording features Dr. Jason Hwang, co-author of the Innovators Prescription and Executive Director of Health Care and co-founder of in-sight Institute. Using cutting-edge technologies and consumer-driven alternatives, Christensen, Grossman and Hwang show businesses, insurance companies and health workers how to lower costs, improve care and streamline the process, benefiting companies, doctors and patients alike. This is real innovation at work, an eye-opening manifesto that's sure to spark international debate—and much-needed change—for generations to come. Dec. 16, 2008—with author Arnold Kling (MP3)
This recording features Arnold Kling, a scholar who writes about a wide variety of economic issues. A former staff member on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1980 to 1986 and a senior economist at Freddie Mac from 1986 to 1994, Kling founder one of the first commercial sites on the Web, Homefair.com, in 1994. He is the author of several books, most recently Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care, published by the Cato Institute. In the book, Kling argues that the way we finance health care matches neither the needs of patients nor the way medicine is practiced. May 9, 2008—with author Dr. Regina Herzlinger (MP3)
This recording features Dr. Regina Herzlinger, a professor at Harvard Business School and one of the country's foremost health care analysts. She has won numerous awards and has lectured on health care hundreds of times. She has been named by Modern Health Care as one of the most powerful people in health care. In her book Who Killed Health Care?, Herzlinger exposes the methods of those who have crippled America's health care system and outlines a bold new plan for a system to deliver affordable high quality care to everyone. June 27, 2008—with author Michael Cannon (MP3)
This recording features author Mr. Cannon who is the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies. Previously, he served as a domestic policy analyst for the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee where he advised the Senate leadership on health, education, labor, welfare and the Second Amendment. Cannon has appeared on ABC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, C-SPAN, Fox News Channel and NPR. His articles have been featured in USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Forum for Health Economics & Policy and the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics. Mr. Cannon is coauthor of Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It. He holds a bachelor's degree in American government (B.A.) from the University of Virginia, and master's degrees in economics (M.A.) and law & economics (J.M.) from George Mason University.
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