#  Upcoming Event: Affordable Medical Care for Every American 

 





November 09, 2018

 

 

The U.S. has spent $3.7 trillion on health in 2018, yet 28 million Americans are still uninsured and 41 million are underinsured. What could a strategy for ensuring affordable medical care for every American look like? Join [Dr. William Hsiao](/people/william-hsiao), Senior Faculty Scholar at the Incubator, for a seminar that explores this very question and illustrates how a single payer system—such as Medicare for All—can provide affordable universal health care for all Americans. The seminar, from the [Department of Health Policy and Management](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/health-policy-and-management/), will be held from 1:00-2:30pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 in Kresge 439 of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Hsiao is the K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics at the Harvard Chan School, where he has spent over forty years conducting health financing studies, including on single payer systems. Of note, Hsiao led the team that [developed the scale](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198809293191305) used to determine how much medical providers should be paid—the basis for the payment system of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) and many health maintenance organizations (HMOs).

Beyond his foundational work in the U.S., Dr. Hsiao is leading global expert on universal health insurance. He has been actively engaged in designing health system reforms and universal health insurance programs for many countries, including the United States, Taiwan, China, Colombia, Poland, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Sweden, Cyprus, Uganda, and most recently for Malaysia and South Africa. Dr. Hsiao’s analytical framework for health system analysis is deployed throughout the world and integral in many global health curriculums.

To learn more about universal health coverage as outlined in the global community’s Sustainable Development Goals, browse our [resource pack](https://repository.gheli.harvard.edu/repository/collection/resource-pack-health-systems-uhc/) on the topic, or the related pack on [country case examples](https://repository.gheli.harvard.edu/repository/collection/resource-pack-country-cases-of-health-reform/) of health reform.



 

 

 



 

 

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