Alain C. Enthoven

Why Competition in Health Care Has Failed: What Would it Take to Make it Work?

Clemens Lecture Series 6, 1992

Alain. C. Enthoven is the Marriner Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management in the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University, as well as Professor of Health Research in the Stanford School of Medicine. He has worked extensively in both the public and private sectors, including service as Assistant Secretary of Defense and later as President of Litton Medical Products, prior to his appointment at Stanford in 1973. He has taught at MIT, Harvard, Georgetown, The University of Rennes and elsewhere. He serves as a consultant to various health care boards. He has published widely in health care economics and is one of the most highly respected health care economists in the nation today. An advocate of universal health care coverage, he addresses in this lecture a different issue: the rapid growth of health care spending in the United States.