Date and Time
April 7, 2004
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Availability
Open to the public
No RSVP required

Speaker
Alain C. Enthoven - Stanford University

Professor Enthoven will discuss two topics. First, a new book called Toward a 21st Century Health System: The contributions and promise of prepaid group practice, with chapters by such luminaries as Shortell, Berwick, Luft and J. Robinson. Second, a frequently overlooked but fundamental contributor to the ongoing increase in health expenditures is price (and cost) inelastic demand which is fostered by employers and public policies. For example, the exclusion of employer (and employee) health insurance contributions from employee taxable incomes, cuts the cost of choosing more costly care. The government and employers have not created an environment of price elastic demand, though they could do so. Reforms will be discussed. Alain Enthoven is the Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and is a core faculty member of CHP/PCOR.