Speaking
Public speaking used to scare me. Not anymore.
What changed? Two things. First, I’ve learned to talk about only things I really know something about (I wouldn’t make a good politician). Second, a lot of people seem to appreciate, or at least enjoy what I have to say. Certainly not all of them do. (I can be a tad controversial), but that’s really why auditoriums have emergency exits.
Virtually everyone cares about health reform and seems to have opinions about it. Most fall on one side or the other of the Great Divide between those who think (1) the government should run our health care system, or (2) government should stand aside and let free markets do it. My own view assigns major roles to both institutions. Enlightened market regulation and safety nets are proper government functions, and medical care financing and delivery should be the role of regulated markets. Thus, I often tend to annoy people on both ends of the ideological spectrum, but seem to get along with all of them.
Speaking Topics
I can speak on the following topics, but have been known to tailor presentations to particular groups:
- How To Know Effective Health Care Reform When You See It (Hint: It utterly destroys the PBM industry)
- Why Effective Prevention and Electronic Medical Records Won’t Save Money
- Market Failure and How It Produced today’s Health Care Mess
- Getting Medical Care with Twice the Quality at Half the Cost
- Why We Don’t Need to Reform Health Care Delivery
- Medicare is Dead, Long Live Medicare
- Big Pharma: What’s Wrong With It and How To Fix It
- Why We Need More Bankrupt Hospitals
- Do We Really Need Doctors to be the Last Priesthood
- Fixing Health Care Forever with 3 Government Reforms
