Dr. William Sage: US Health Care Policy Expert

East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray

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Dr. Bill Sage is the Assistant Vice President of the Texas A&M Health Science Center, a professor of Medicine at the Texas A& M University School of Medicine, and a professor of Law at Texas A& M University School of Law. He has published hundreds of papers over the decades on health law and policy, and he has edited four books including the Oxford Handbook of US Health Law. He has previously been a professor of law and/or medicine at the University of Texas Austin, Columbia Law School, Yale, Harvard and NYU. Although we will be talking about American health care policy rather than specifically Alaska health care policy, our conversation is relevant since the Alaska Health Care system is a microcosm of our national health care system.
Here are links to many of the Dr. Sage's papers discussed during today's episode:
"What the Pandemic Taught Us: The Health Care System We Have Is Not the System We Hoped We Had"
"Minding Ps and Qs: The Political and Policy Questions Framing Health Care Spending"

"Brand New Law! The Need to Market Health Care Reform"

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1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Start of interview proper (00:01:41)

3. How badly did US do during Covid (00:05:44)

4. A Failing of Obamacare (00:08:29)

5. On the salaries of health care folks including doctors (00:14:15)

6. "When we talk about nurses . . . " (00:23:15)

7. Physician fee-for-service payment model (00:28:17)

8. Direct Primary Care (00:32:53)

9. The problem with professional licensing boards (00:35:15)

10. The nursing compact (00:41:22)

11. Certificate of Need Laws (00:43:35)

12. All policy is Health Policy (00:50:36)

13. Conclusion (00:57:35)