Health Care and Its Costs
November 13, 1986 - November 16, 1986
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The "Health Care and Its Costs" report and Assembly, directed by Carl J. Schramm, currently President and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation, were produced in 1986.  Hospital costs had risen at twice the rate of any other good or service that the average citizen needs.  The report addresses the massive increase in spending as well as the role of technology in the field and advocates preventive education.  



 

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James Steinberg is currently Deputy Secretary of State. He was previously the Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and cosponsor of The American Assembly's Next Generation Project. He will assume the position of Dean and Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in the summer of 2011.