Thanks so much for joining us today. We are happy to present an equity in our Health Care System. Dr. David answer the death gap how inequality kills and dr. Thomas fisher the emergency a year of healing and heartbreak in a chicago e. R. With Katherine Davis with crains dr. Ansell and fishers books be available for sale and signing at the book sales and signing tent marked in in our nancy nancy on your maps david ansell is the Senior Vice President associate provost for Community Health equity at Rush University Medical Center in chicago. He is the author of the death gap how inequality kills and county life death and politics at chicagos public hospital. Thomas l is a Board Certified emergency medicine physician from chicago, and over his career, he has to improve health care as Academic Health insurance, executive health care, company and white house fellow, the first term of the Obama Administration in the emergency. Lets by Penguin Random random house our moderator is kathryn kathe
Thanks so much for joining us today. We are happy to present an equity in our Health Care System. Dr. David answer the death gap how inequality kills and dr. Thomas fisher the emergency a year of healing and heartbreak in a chicago e. R. With Katherine Davis with crains dr. Ansell and fishers books be available for sale and signing at the book sales and signing tent marked in in our nancy nancy on your maps david ansell is the Senior Vice President associate provost for Community Health equity at Rush University Medical Center in chicago. He is the author of the death gap how inequality kills and county life death and politics at chicagos public hospital. Thomas l is a Board Certified emergency medicine physician from chicago, and over his career, he has to improve health care as Academic Health insurance, executive health care, company and white house fellow, the first term of the Obama Administration in the emergency. Lets by Penguin Random random house our moderator is kathryn kathe
Equity in our Health Care System, dr. David ansell, soul of death gap, and equality, and dr. Thomas fischer, the emergency, the year of stealing and heartbreak in the chicago e. R. With kathryn davis. Dr. Ansell and fishers book will be available for signing at the book sale and signing tent, marked an and, for nasty nasty, on your map. David antel is the Senior Vice President , associate cohost for Community Health equity at University Medical Health Center in chicago. Hes the author of the death gap, how inequality kills and county, life, death and politics at chicagos Public Hospital. Thomas all fisher is aboard fide from chicago. Over his career he has worked to improve health care as an academic, Health Insurance executive, company creator and white house fellow in the first term of the obama administration. The emergency was published by Penguin Random house. Catherine is the health care and Life Sciences reporter at cranes chicago business, where she writes about hospitals, publ
Lets convene our second panel. We think our panelists for being here and sitting through the first panel. Before i introduce our panelists, let me just say a few words. I think that sometimes it is important to take a 30,000 foot look at the symptoms of the best systems under which we live. We do not do this often enough. We go crisis by crisis. In my view, we are living with a Health Care System which is broken and which is dysfunctional. We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other country on earth. 13,000 every year which is unsustainable. Yet, despite that, 85 million americans are uninsured or underinsured. We are seeing in many parts of this country, unbelievably, above and beyond covid, and decline in our life expected. We have a half billion americans who, every year, experienced bankruptcy which is related to the medical that they have. We saw during the pandemic how unprepared we were for the Major Health Care crisis that hit us. There are a lot of reasons fo
Lets convene our second panel. We think our panelists for being here and sitting through the first panel. Before i introduce our panelists, let me just say a few words. I think that sometimes it is important to take a 30,000 foot look at the symptoms of the best systems under which we live. We do not do this often enough. We go crisis by crisis. In my view, we are living with a Health Care System which is broken and which is dysfunctional. We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other country on earth. 13,000 every year which is unsustainable. Yet, despite that, 85 million americans are uninsured or underinsured. We are seeing in many parts of this country, unbelievably, above and beyond covid, and decline in our life expected. We have a half billion americans who, every year, experienced bankruptcy which is related to the medical that they have. We saw during the pandemic how unprepared we were for the Major Health Care crisis that hit us. There are a lot of reasons fo