Lecture Series: Daniel Callahan (Jan 20)

Will the proposed health care reforms improve our health care system?
The next speaker in our lecture series, Ethicist Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center, will answer all your questions, Wednesday evening, January 20th, at 7:30 p.m. here in the church.

The likelihood of an historic overhaul of health care in this country raises a number of fundamental questions. Will the bills passed by the Senate and Congress really improve our health care system? Will they control rising health care costs? Can costs be controlled without any loss of benefits? How do other countries handle these problems? What is the likely future of Medicare? Our speaker is uniquely qualified to address these issues.

Daniel Callahan, a pioneer in the field of bioethics, was for 27 years president of The Hastings Center and is currently a Senior Scholar at Yale University and codirector of the Hastings-Yale Program in Ethics and Health Policy. A graduate of Yale with a PH.D from Harvard, Callahan is the author or co-editor of 41 books, including Taming the Beast: Why Medical Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System, published last year. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences and a former advisor to the Office of Scientific Responsibility of the Department of Health and Human Services. Among his many honors is the Freedom and Scientific Responsibility Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has written for The Atlantic, Harpers, The New Republic and the New England Journal of Medicine among other publications.

As always, this lecture is free and open to the public.

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