Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture
on Health Policy

Moving Towards Universal Health Insurance Coverage
Jonathan Gruber, Ph.D.

Friday, October 2, 2009, 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Sheraton University Hotel, 801 University Avenue

Jonathan Gruber is Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992. He is also the Director of the Program on Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research, co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2005. In 2006 he was appointed to the board of the Massachusetts Insurance Connector, the main implementing body for the state's health care reform effort. His research focuses on public finance and health economics.

His opinion piece, Universal Health Insurance Coverage or Economic Relief — A False Choice, appeared in the January 29, 2009, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

If you want to receive an invitation to the next Lourie Lecture in the mail, please contact:

Martha W. Bonney
Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall, Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244-1020
Telephone (315) 443-2703 | FAX (315) 443-1081
 mwbonney@maxwell.syr.edu.

About the Lourie Lecture

The Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture is jointly sponsored by Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the Central New York Community Foundation, Inc., and administered by the Center for Policy Research.

Herbert Lourie, MD, was a distinguished member of the national and international medical communities in the field of neurosurgery, as well as a physician who understood medicine as a high calling that demands the utmost of skill, intellect, compassion and character. With his untimely death in 1987, our community lost a beloved healer, teacher, and leader. A generous outpouring of money by his many friends, patients, colleagues, and family funds this lecture series on health care policy and the allocation of health care resources.

Past lecturers include:

• 2008. David Lawrence, MD, MPH, retired CEO and Chairman of Kaiser Permanente. Physician Sovereignty: The Dangerous Persistence of an Obsolete Idea.
• 2007. Judy Feder, PhD, Professor and Dean, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University. Our Troubled Health Care System: Why Is It So Hard to Fix?

• 2006. Mark V. Pauly, PhD, Bendheim Professor, and Professor of Health Care Systems, Business and Public Policy, Insurance and Risk Management, and Economics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. The Truth About Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection.

• 2005. John Wennberg, MD, MPH, Professor of Community and Family Medicine (Epidemiology) and of Medicine; Director, Center for the Evaluative Clinical Services; and Principal Investigator of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care project, Dartmouth Medical School. Variations among Regions and Hospitals in Managing Chronic Illness: How Much Care Is Enough?

• 2004. Milton Weinstein, PhD, Director of the Program on the Economic Evaluation of Medical Technology at Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, and Henry J. Kaiser Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University. Spending Health Care Dollars Wisely: Can Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Help?

• 2003. David M. Cutler, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a faculty member of the Kennedy School of Government. Are the Benefits of Medicine Worth What We Pay for It?

• 2002. Ralph W. Muller, former President and CEO of the University of Chicago Hospitals and Health Systems. The Changing American Hospital in the Twenty-First Century.

• 2001. Patricia M. Danzon, the Celia Moh Professor, and Professor of Health Care Systems, and Insurance and Risk Management, at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Stephen B. Soumerai, Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at the Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Drug Policy Research Group at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Pharmaceuticals: Access, Cost, Pricing, and Directions for the Future.

• 2000. Deborah A. Freund, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost of Syracuse University. Medicaid, Managed Care, and Kids.

• 1999. Linda P. Fried, Director, Center on Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Health Promotion for Older Adults: What is the Potential?

• 1998. Paul B. Ginsburg, President, Center for Studying Health Change; Patricia D. Franklin, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of Quality Management, SUNY Health Science Center; David G. Murray, Professor and Chairman, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, SUNY Health Science Center; and Robert M. Corwin, Medical Director, MedBest Medical Management, Inc. and HealthBest IPA, Inc. The Evolving Practice of Medicine: A View from the Front Line. Moderator: Thomas H. Dennison, Adjunct Professor of Public Administration, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University.

• 1997. David J. Lansky, President of the Foundation for Accountability (FACCT). Who Will Control America's Health Care Systems: Consumers, Providers, Government?

• 1996. James R. Tallon, Jr., President of the United Hospital Fund of New York. New Conundrums: Public Policy and the Emerging Health Care Marketplace.

• 1995. David M. Lawrence, Chairman and CEO of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Hospitals. Health Care: Public Good or Private Enterprise?

• 1994. Marilyn Moon, Senior Fellow with the Health Policy Center of the Urban Institute. The Rhetoric and the Reality of Health Care Reform Legislation.

• 1993. John K. Iglehart, founding editor of Health Affairs and national correspondent for The New England Journal of Medicine. Pursuing Health-Care Reform: The Promise and the Pitfalls.

• 1992. Arnold S. Relman, Professor of Medicine and of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, The New England Journal of Medicine. Reforming Our Health Care System.

• 1991.   Bruce C. Vladeck, President of the United Hospital Fund of New York. Health Care Reform and the Proper Role of Government.

• 1990. Uwe E. Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy, The Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Providing Access to Health Care and Containing its Costs: Options for the United States.

• 1989. Fred Frohock, Department of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University; Peter Black, Franc D. Ingraham Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief, Brigham and Women's and Children's Hospital; and Daniel Callahan, Director of The Hastings Center. Ethics and the Allocation of Resources for Medical Care.