Announcing a new Meetup for South Bay-Libertarian Party of Santa Clara County Meetup!

What: David S. Saurman Provocative Lecture

When: November 19,[masked]:15 PM

Where:
Morris Dailey Auditorium - San Jose State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95050

San Jose State University
Department of Economics

David S. Saurman Provocative Lecture Series
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?Safeway?s Market-Based Approach to Healthcare?
Ken Shachmut
Senior Vice President ? Safeway Inc.
Executive Vice President ? Safeway Health LLC

Thursday, November 19, 2009
5:15?6:45 P.M.
Morris Dailey Auditorium

Safeway operates 1750 food and drugstores in the United States and Canada, with annual sales over $44 billion. Through Safeway Health LLC, a healthcare services company, Safeway works with other companies, union trusts, government agencies, and other organizations to help them achieve healthcare savings using a multi-year business model with shared savings. Safeway Health LLC only gets paid when it delivers savings to its clients. Its initiatives have had a dramatic effect on Safeway?s own healthcare costs. Through these initiatives Safeway has flat-lined its all-in healthcare costs from 2005 to 2009 with no cost shifting between Safeway and its employees. The company has also shared its experience with several thousand business executives, members of Congress, and officials in the Obama Administration on the implementation of market-oriented changes that should underpin successful health care reform.

Mr. Shachmut is Senior Vice President and Executive Officer of Safeway Inc. in Pleasanton, California, as well as Executive Vice President of Safeway Health LLC. One of his core areas of responsibility is the design and implementation of cost-effective, integrated market-based health benefits programs for employees. Mr. Shachmut also has a leadership role in Safeway?s national healthcare reform initiatives. He is a member of the Center for Corporate Innovation?s West Coast Healthcare Executive Summit and McKinsey?s Bay Area Chief Strategy Officer Roundtable. He serves on the Board of Directors of DestinationRx and the Advocacy Strategy Council of Health Promotion Advocates. Mr. Shachmut holds a BSE degree with honors in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and an MBA from Stanford University.

STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC ARE ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND.

ABOUT THE DAVID S. SAURMAN PROVOCATIVE LECTURE SERIES: The Department of Economics invites students, faculty, and the general public to consider intellectual arguments on controversial topics. Presenters in the Provocative Lecture Series are noted for their outstanding scholarship and public speaking ability. This lecture series fosters the tradition of higher education to challenge ideas and develop critical thinking in an environment of respect and intellectual discourse. Our goal is for you to develop the critical thinking skills necessary to reach your own informed position on controversial issues. We invite you to attend, to relax, to ponder, and to enjoy the thought process. The views of the speakers do not necessarily represent those of the University

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