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Date: October 10, 1997
Uwe Reinhardt to Discuss "Can America Afford Its Older Citizens?"
Princeton, N.J. -- Uwe Reinhardt, an authority on the nation's health care system and Princeton's James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, will give a lecture titled "Can America Afford Its Older Citizens?" at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, October 16 at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Reinhardt, who appears frequently in the national media to discuss issues related to the economics of health care, has been a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences since 1978. He was a member of the National Leadership Commission on Health Care, a private-sector initiative established to develop options for health care reform, and is a past president of the Association of Health Services Research, on whose board he still serves. From 1986 to 1995 he served as a commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Committee, established in 1986 by Congress to advise it on issues related to the payment of physicians. Reinhardt is or was a member of numerous editorial boards, among them the Journal of Health Economics, the Milbank Memorial Quarterly, Health Affairs, The New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association .
Reinhardt's talk will inaugurate the Herman M. "Red" Somers Lecture series, named in honor of Professor Somers, a member of the Princeton faculty from 1963 to 1979. He was well-known as an author, lecturer, and consultant on health economics, health administration, and social insurance, and served on task forces and advisory councils to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, and to several secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare. Along with his wife, Anne Somers, he collaborated on numerous books, including Doctors, Patients, and Health Insurance (1961), Medicare and Hospitals (1967) and Health and Health Care: Policies in Perspective (1977). Professor Somers died in 1991 at the age of 80.
Reinhardt's lecture is co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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