Reforming American Health Care Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes George C. Halvorson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kaiser Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, for a discussion of health care reform. Topics covered include: thinking systemically and comparatively about health care; roots of the American crisis; prerequisites for positive change; lessons of managed care systems such as Kaiser, Mayo and Cleveland; the implications of information technology for reengineering American health care; grading Obama's reforms; and lessons learned from a career in health care management. globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/ conversationswithhistory.typepad.com/conversations_with_histor/ www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1721