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Satcher, who is the 16th Surgeon General, isalso the assistant secretary of health and hasserved in these positions since February 1998. Theassistant secretary for health advises the healthand human services secretary's senior adviser onpublic health issues. Satcher was president ofMeharry Medical College from 1982 until 1993. From1993 to 1997, he was the director of the Centerfor Disease Control and Prevention
Medicare, the federal program that subsidizes health care for the elderly and disabled, has long been a crucial piece of 1America's medical education system...
However, in recent years insurance companiesusing "managed care"--a health-care managementbureaucracy designed to cut costs--have begunfunding a larger portion of all health care. Andthey do not provide subsides, putting additionalpressure on the funding received form Medicare...
Across the country, academic as well ascommunity hospitals have been cutting costs, butacademic hospitals have been unable to keep upwith the loss in federal money and preserve theirtraditional role in health care...
...crisis facing Harvard's hospitals couldmean more than the loss of some treatmentfacilities. They are critical piece of theUniversity's medical education program, andindeed, of the nation's health care system...