Monday, September 10, 2007 | 4:30 - 7:00 pm | Gasson 100
synopsis
Americans desire a health care system that is: 1) provided to all people; 2) maintains the freedom to choose care providers; 3) consists of the highest quality, and; 4) controls for cost. Unfortunately, some of these goals are not compatible. The American health care system displays an enormous paradox: In technology and scientific knowledge it is second to none, but despite these vast resources many Americans are unable to reap the benefits of the system. There is currently an ongoing debate on the need to achieve universal coverage as well as best method of improving the US health care system.
Michael Stanley Dukakis
Former Governer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University
Visiting Professor, School of Public Policy, UCLA
Michael Stanley Dukakis, graduate of Harvard Law School, was born in Brookline, MA, where he began his political career in 1962 as a four-term Massachusetts State Legislator. Dukakis was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1974, 1982 and 1986, and is credited with digging the state out of one of its worst financial and economic crises in history. In 1986, his colleagues in the National Governors' Association voted him the most effective governor in the nation. Dukakis won the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States in 1988 but was defeated by George Bush. Since June 1991, Dukakis has been a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University and visiting professor at the School of Public Policy at UCLA. His research has focused on national health care policy reform and the lessons that national policy makers can learn from state reform efforts.
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