CA Event: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer

Shannon Brownlee, award-winning journalist and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, has written and spoken widely about health care, genetic testing and the insurance industry, problems in the assisted reproductive industry, and the need for national policies to regulate new human genetic technologies.

In Overtreated, Shannon argues that the U.S. health care system delivers huge amounts of unnecessary care that is not only expensive and wasteful but can actually imperil our health. She shows how the interests of politicians and the medical-industrial complex continually trump those of patients, seducing the wealthy with unnecessary procedures and leaving the poor with haphazard access to treatment. In her talk, Shannon will also address the coming era of personalized genomic medicine. She’ll ask whether it is more likely to remedy the lack of evidence in current medical practice, or to exacerbate the problems of cost and unnecessary care.

Join the Center for Genetics and Society and the New America Foundation for a comprehensive look at how the American health care system fails to deliver value for its high spending. Egg Nog and holiday refreshments will be served.

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