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Date: April 8, 1999
Health Care Economics Expert to Address Abolishing Medicare and Medicaid
Princeton, N.J. -- Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton's James Madison Professor of Political Economy and a leading expert on the economics of health care, will speak on "Why Abolishing Medicaid and Medicare Would be Efficient" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, April 20, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
Reinhardt 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. He has appeared frequently on television, commenting on health care issues.
His talk is being sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the Center for Health Care Strategies.