title: Joseph A. Califano Jr. A former HEW secretary looks at health care reform. Interview by Terese Hudson.
abstract: Joseph A. Califano Jr. was secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Carter administration and is now president of the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, an independent not-for-profit research center. He also serves as an adjunct professor of public health at Columbia University. Califano has written eight books, including America's Health Care Revolution: Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Pays?, published in 1986. He will speak at the American Society for Healthcare Marketing and Public Relations 15th annual meeting, Sept. 11-14 in San Francisco. He spoke recently with Senior Editor Terese Hudson about the possibilities and problems in the current move to reform health care.
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authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Califano
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