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Course Description

Healthcare: America Versus the World

Instructor: Jay Pomerantz
Dates: Wednesdays, Sep 27-Nov 15
Time: 2:00 PM-3:30 PM
Location: Online via Zoom
 

The USA currently spends about 18% of our Gross Domestic Product (G.D.P) on healthcare. That is almost $12,000 per individual and twice what other countries spend on healthcare. We have some of the world’s best hospitals and physicians. Yet, on almost all measures of population health, America is far behind other wealthy countries. For example, Americans die of preventable diseases at greater rates than elsewhere. COVID led to much excess death, despite effective vaccines. What is wrong with our system? Can we get some ideas of how to fix our system from other countries?
Maximum online registrants: 300

 

Instructor’s Bio:

Jay Pomerantz, MD, Yale University School of Medicine. Following an internship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, he served on the medical staff of the U.S. Peace Corps. He then completed a residency in psychiatry at Mass Mental Health Center in Boston. After that, he practiced outpatient psychiatry while continuing on the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School. He retired in 2015.

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