Noted health-care economist Jonathan Skinner to speak at Clemson

Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business

Jonathan Skinner, a nationally recognized healthcare economist, will speak Nov. 4 at Clemson University on the U.S. health care system and keeping it affordable without stifling economic growth.

Jonathan Skinner

Skinner, a Dartmouth professor of economics, is speaking at Clemson as part of The Big Ideas about Information Lecture Series, sponsored by the Information Economy Project. The Nov. 4 event, from 5:30-7 p.m. in 301 Kinard Hall, is free and open to the public.

Skinner is a professor of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice.
Among his topics, Skinner will discuss the financial challenges facing health care in the U.S., ranging from unaffordable co-payments to Medicare’s looming bankruptcy.

The event is free, but seating is limited. To RSVP and for more information on the lecture, contact Kaitlin Matheson at kmathes@g.clemson.edu.

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