Smith Business Close-Up: Reforming Health Care
Thursday, August 6, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 9, 2009, 7:30 a.m.
Monday, August 10, 2009, 4:30 a.m.
Health care reform is a hot issue in Washington and primary to reforms is
figuring out how to cut costs. But what is the best way to contain costs and
still provide quality care?
In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of
Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business,
Kislaya Prasad discusses the
controversies of health care reform and how to approach cost cutting.
Dr. Prasad is a research professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Among other things, he is currently studying the cost-effectiveness of
treatments and technologies in medicine, variations in medical practice and the
diffusion of technologies in medicine. Dr. Prasad is also a Guest Scholar at the
Brookings Institution in Washington D.C.
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Smith Business Close-Up is co-produced by the Robert H. Smith School of
Business and Maryland Public Television. The television segment focuses on the latest thinking in business management,
and features in-depth interviews with Smith School faculty and other members of
the school’s community of business leaders.
Where to watch
Smith Business Close-Up can be seen bi-weekly on Maryland Public
Television's Your Business and Money. The program airs at 7:30 p.m. on
Thursdays and is repeated the following Sunday at 7:30 a.m. and Monday at 4:30
a.m. on public television stations throughout Maryland and the Washington, D.C.,
metropolitan region, including:
 WMPB-TV (Ch. 67), Baltimore
WMPT-TV (Ch. 22), DC metro/Annapolis
WCPB-TV (Ch. 28), Salisbury
WFPT-TV (Ch. 62), Frederick
WWPB-TV (Ch. 31), Hagerstown
WGPT-TV (Ch. 36), Oakland
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