Concerned about health care cost and availability? (Who isn’t?) Outstanding teleseminar opportunity for you
September 23, 2004I love teleseminars, especially when I can get attorney continuing education credit and eat lunch at the same time.
I have “attended” a number of very good ones recently, part of an ongoing series by the ABA Labor & Employment Section, including this one, with the best intentions of reporting on them in this blawg, but . . .
Anyway, I got a notice of a Harvard Business School Publishing Virtual Seminar about the health-care issue that looks great, if a bit expensive.
It is described as suitable for:
General managers, executives, and human resource professionals from organizations that provide health care coverage to their workers as well as executives from pharmaceutical, medical supply and device, insurance, health care provider, health maintenance organizations, and related industries.The teleconference is entitled: Solving the Health Care Conundrum: A Conversation with Michael Porter. It undoubtedly will present his ideas as summed up here:
In a long essay in the June edition of Harvard Business Review, . . . Porter argues for redefining healthcare competition on the level of specific diseases and treatments, rather than on the level of health plans, networks, or hospital groups. “The wrong kinds of competition have made a mess of the American healthcare system,” contend Porter and his coauthor, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg of the University of Virginia. “The right kind of competition can straighten it out.”Private employers need to stay abreast of this issue and work hard to shape public opinion and policy on it, so that we are not led deeper into the morass by politicians proposing simplistic, expensive, and anticompetitive quick fixes (no names mentioned — they’re all guilty in my book).
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