Ezekiel Emanuel, Chair of the Department of Bioethics at The Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health, will discuss problems and solutions for the nation's currently dysfunctional health-care system.

Dr. Ezekiel proposes comprehensive reforms that improve the inefficiencies and lack of cost-controls that currently plague consumers and employers alike. Among these are ideas encouraging the removal of employer-based health plans, the guarantee for each American of essential benefits, the financing of that plan through a dedicated tax, the administration of health care plans through a neutral board modeled after the Federal Reserve, and the evaluation of new technologies and programs by an independent institute created for that purpose.

This event is co-sponsored by the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.