Healthcare
Dr. Atul Gawande offers a practitioner's wisdom on how to reform healthcare and a unique perspective on what it takes to excel in any area of human endeavor. Dr. Gawande received a MacArthur Fellowship for his writing and work to improve surgical practice.
Atul Gawande is a staff surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. He is the author of three bestsellers, The Checklist Manifesto, Better and Complications. To learn more about Dr. Gawande, click here.
Fixing American Health Care A debate between Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Matt Miller In this timely, fireworksy and substantive program, Matt Miller and Douglas Holtz-Eakin debate one of the great topical issues of our time: how best to reform health care in America. Holtz-Eakin and Miller both have experience making government policy in health care and both have made real contributions to the wider debate already. Both are terrific on the platform. In this unique and valuable program, they will question each other's assumptions and proposals and challenge the audience to decide for themselves what course would best serve their organizations, the nation and its citizens. The lively and illuminating clash of perspectives will also reveal some surprising common ground, suggesting how bipartisan progress might be possible. |
Matt Miller 
Miller was a top aid in the Clinton White House during the last attempt at health care reform. Today, he consults to corporate America, including the health care industry, and is the author of the provocative new book, The Tyranny of Dead Ideas, which explains how outdated ways of thinking stand in the way of health care reform. He is a contributing editor at Fortune magazine and is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress. |
Douglas Holtz-Eakin 
Holtz-Eakin is a former Director of the Congressional Budget Office, the federal government's main number cruncher, where he won universal respect as a fine, nonpartisan economist. He served for 18 months as Chief Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors and was Director of Domestic and Economic Policy for John McCain's presidential campaign. He is a Fellow of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. |