04.14.05 Case: Harvard economics professor lecture: “Your Money or Your Life�

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 03/31/2005 - 21:56.
04/14/2005 - 14:30

David Cutler, professor of economics at Harvard University’s
Economics Department and the Kennedy School of Government, will deliver
the annual Howard T. McMyler Lecture. He will discuss the U.S. health
care system in a lecture, entitled “Your Money or Your Life� and
co-hosted by the Economics Department of Case’s Weatherhead School
of Management and by the Center for Health Care Research and Policy.
The talk will take place on Thursday April 14, 2005, 3:30 p.m. in the
Clark Room at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens. It is free and open to
the public

Cutler has an impressive record of achievement in both academia and
the public sector. He has served on the Council of Economic Advisers
and the National Economic Council during the Clinton Administration
and advised the Presidential campaigns of Bill Bradley and John Kerry.
Among his many accomplishments, Cutler has held positions with the National
Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Sciences. Currently,
he is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
and a member of the Institute of Medicine.

The author of Your Money Or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's
Health Care System, published by Oxford University Press, his book,
and revoluntionary ideas, were the subject of a feature article in the
New York Times Magazine, “The Quality Cure�, by Roger Lowenstein.

The Howard T. McMyler lecture was established in honor of the late
Howard T. McMyler, a 1906 graduate of Western Reserve University who
dedicated his career to teaching economics and social studies in the
Cleveland Public Schools. He died in 1953 and in 1976 his widow, Mrs.
Opal McMyler Martin, established the Howard T. McMyler Endowment Fund
to provide for an annual monetary prize to an outstanding junior majoring
in economics and to bring to campus each year a nationally known economist
to lecture on a timely topic

About Case Western Reserve University

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Reserve University, Case is distinguished by its strengths in education, research,
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Location

Clark Room at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens
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