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William R. Brody, President of the Johns Hopkins University, August 1996-Present

        

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Health Care '08: Search for Solutions Television Series

Great Ideas Podcasts

National Press Club Health Care '08: What's Promised/What's Possible? September 2007

Crossroads: Essays on Health Care in Modern America

"Healing America's Health Care Crisis" Town Hall Journal (Los Angeles) Fall 2007 (PDF)

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Great Ideas Podcasts

A Long Way To Go...

Dr. Brody discusses the tremendous challenges involved in reforming America's health care system in these special editions of "Great Ideas."

  February 2008

Time Mileposts:

  • 0:30 Retirement Living Health Care '08 TV series
  • 0:49 Focus on chronic disease
  • 1:35 Incentives in the system are wrong
  • 2:25 Provider-side changes
  • 3:15 Evidence-based medicineDr. William R. Brody
  • 4:26 Cost of care in last six months of life
  • 5:10 Transparency about quality
  • 7:13 Acceptable error rate?
  • 7:42 End

  January 2008

Time Mileposts:

  • 0:27 Health care is a top domestic issue
  • 1:02 Big part of problem is Medicare
  • 2:06 We're not getting enough benefit for what we spend
  • 3:19 Health care is a non-system
  • 3:49 Cost and coverage
  • 4:42 Common standard for billing
  • 6:00 We can't do this
  • 6:37 Retirement Living Health Care '08 TV series
  • 7:04 End