The American Experiment Through the Lens of Health
The US outspends every wealthy nation on healthcare yet trails most of them in life expectancy. In the final installment of our series, Dr. Don Berwick, former CMS Administrator, asks what our health reveals about America at 250: why high-tech care thrives while population health lags, how social determinants and fairness shape longevity, and what we must choose now to be healthier at 300.
From Healthcare to Health: What Makes a Nation Healthy?
What makes people healthy beyond healthcare? In the second installment of this series, Martin Goldstein, Senior Fellow ALI '21, talks with Dr. Don Berwick, former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Dr. Berwick widens the lens from the healthcare system to the conditions that shape health itself, exploring how fairness, agency, basic rights, and leadership can give everyone a real chance to realize their potential and what responsibility society bears for creating those conditions.
Making Healthcare Better: Quality, Equity, and Purpose
How do we make healthcare better – and toward what end? Don Berwick begins with the healthcare system itself, examining why choosing what to improve is a moral declaration, how commitments to quality and equity shape that choice, and what the American healthcare system is actually designed to achieve and whom it is designed to serve.