“Nothing Happens Until People Start Talking”

Too Much Market, Not Enough Care

Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 11:45 am - 1:15 pm
The Grove Hotel

Most Americans want health care reform, but the nation has not reached consensus on how to make that happen. As Congress debates the President’s health care plan, an outspoken Utah physician offers City Club members his own prescription for an ailing system. Dr. Jarvis will describe some perversities he sees in health care delivery that keep it from serving more people and lead to costs growing many times faster than wages. For instance, he asks, do physicians and hospitals actually earn more by being inefficient? A lively Q&A session is expected.

Joseph Q. Jarvis received his M.D. and master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Utah School of Medicine, where he completed residencies in family practice, public health and occupational/environmental medicine. He practiced family medicine at a Salt Lake City community health center, where few had health insurance, and at Medicaid clinics in Washington, D.C., and Reno, Nev. Jarvis was an OSHA medical officer at the US Department of Labor and a staff doctor for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, and served as State Health Officer for Nevada, responsible for all public health programs and regulations, from 1987 to 1989. He chairs the Utah Healthcare Initiative (www.utahpatientspac.com).

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