New York Times reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal and Stanford’s Douglas Owens will discuss the causes of and potential solutions to the high cost of American health care.
October 14, 2014
The sky-high cost of health care in America will be the focus of a forum scheduled for noon Oct. 28 in Berg Hall at the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning & Knowledge.
The Stanford Health Policy Forum, “Can We Put a Price on Good Health? Controlling the Cost of Health Care,” is free and open to the public.
The forum features journalist, physician and Stanford alumna Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, and Douglas Owens, MD, director of the Stanford Center for Health Policy. Rosenthal is the author of The New York Times series “Paying Till It Hurts” on the cost of health care.
They will discuss the causes of and potential solutions to the high cost of health care in the United States, which has grown into a $3-trillion-a-year industry. The United States spends much more than Europe on health care, yet it came in last on a 2014 Commonwealth Fund survey of health care in 11 developed nations.
The event is part of the Stanford Health Policy Forum, an ongoing series of discussions and presentations designed to inform public debate about major health policy issues.
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