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<title>BUniverse: Videos tagged medicare </title>
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<title>The Hubie Jones Lecture in Urban Health featuring Dr. Donald Berwick</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:43:11 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As part of this year's Global Days of Service programming, the University welcomed Dr. Donald Berwick, former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as the guest speaker for the third-annual Hubie Jones Lecture in Urban Health.
Dr. Berwick is the co-founder, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and has consistently been named one of the top influential healthcare leaders in the country.  In his lecture, Dr. Berwick explores the urgency -- and possibility -- of changing healthcare in America to achieve better care, better health and lower cost through improvement.

The Hubie Jones Lecture in Urban Health is an annual symposium addressing vexing health issues distinct to the urban context, featuring prominent national and international leaders toiling at the intersection of health and social justice.

April 12, 2014]]></description>
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<title>Controlling Health Care Costs: Your Money or Your Life?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:53:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[â€œAmerican health care is inefficient in a way that is both lower-quality and higher-cost than it needs to be,â€ says Harvard economist David Cutler, who spoke at the School of Public Healthâ€™s 11th annual Bicknell Lecture.

According to Cutler, the health care reform legislation signed by President Obama in March will spur the creation of accountable care organizations (ACOs), networks of doctors and other caregivers who work together to better coordinate patient care from start to finish. The idea is that greater efficiency weeds out unnecessary costs. Furthermore, the reform law authorizes Medicare, the federal health insurance program for senior citizens, to use ACOs for its patients. Given Medicareâ€™s vastness (45 million seniors covered), Cutler says the idea is that if the massive program improves care and efficiency with ACOs, private insurers will follow suit.

Cutlerâ€™s lecture is followed by a three-person panel discussion led by Andrew Dreyfus, president and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Kate Walsh, president and CEO of Boston Medical Center, and Alice A. Tolbert Coombs, president of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Hosted by the School of Public Health on October 1, 2010.]]></description>
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