Could 'High Touch' Health Care Lower Costs? - Zeke Emanuel

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/03/The_Human_Side_of_Medicine

White House health care policy advisor Ezekiel Emanuel argues that technological advancements in health care are ineffectual without "face-to-face, people-to-people, more human" interactions. He says improvement in doctor-patient relationships are needed to improve health care and drive down costs.

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White House Health Care policy adviser and NIH scientist Ezekiel Emanuel discusses high touch medicine with Royal Philips Electronics CEO Gerard Kleisterlee, and Pathfinders founder and director Tina Staley as part of the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival. - Aspen Institute

Ezekiel Emanuel earned his PhD and MD degrees from Harvard University, where his doctoral dissertation received the Toppan Award for the finest political science dissertation of the year. After earning his MD PhD, he was a Fellow in the Program in Ethics and the Professions at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

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[beancube2010]

@hydin1 Don't confuse people with political ideology as medical ethics. Compassion can build us a lot more of technologies for medicines. Why should we help capital predator bankers making huge group homeless in our population while our technology have capacity building houses for all people in this country? Why should we push wealth elites while oppress everybody else in our population?

[beancube2010]

Don't confuse people with cost-care as health-care. If you don't have equality and voice, you don't have access. Our modern technology can eye-balling performance as well as first class training, can be as personal as you like sometimes as well, through broadband video conferences now-a-day.

[hadenufnow]

Don't RAM Emanuel,,he ain't good lookin enough....now you chumps be pay fo my HELF CAYA NOW...an lets git on wid all dat REDISTRIBUTIN o da welth i be hearin about.. Ize Neebs Da MONEY man...jus start gibben up awl da money to da blomadon soze I can git sum good doctor fo dem good trippin scrips to git me off da cough syrup man...beef fo real man,,,beef fo real,,,it awl be worf it man,, awl be worf it...

[MaverickZ]

RFID drugs that will alert people if you're not taking them? Real smart zeke you fucking idiot.

[McCelesteUNO]

Who is Zeke Emanuel??? Duh, he's Rahm Emanuel's brother.

Hope and Change. Is that another way of saying Bait and Switch?

[hydin1]

oh like a death panel?? sounds like that should be OK. Why is it these people think this is OK. Oh the administration said this wasn't true so no worry's One of Obama's Zar's said that a child isn't human until they reach an age that they can be productive.

[hydin1]

Reform is needed but socialism isn't he way to do it.

[ams1964]

Maybe the government could just exterminate all the disabled and old people like Hitler did with the Jews. That way, we wouldn't have to waste money on kids with Down Syndrome or Severe Autism. We could just incinerate them along with anyone older than 50.

[hydin1]

Dr. Emanuel cites that health services should not be guaranteed to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens He continues, An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

[distilledlaw34]

I like how Fora TV has traveled a thousand years into the future to film this.