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 Dean and Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He served as Deputy Secretary of State from 2009-2011 and the Dept. of State Deputy National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton. 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.