Kaiser Permanente CEO on the flaws in health care

Broadcast: Midmorning, 11/05/2009, 10:06 a.m.

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One of the most influential people in the health care business says medical care in the U.S is inefficient, wasteful and even dangerous.

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George Halvorson: Chair and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Based in Oakland, CA, Kaiser Permanente is the largest nonprofit health plan and hospital system in the country. Halvorson's new book is "Health Care Will Not Reform Itself."

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