The Future of Healthcare

Jack M. Shapiro is an internationally known authority on healthcare trends, marketing and marketing research. He is the principal of Jack M. Shapiro Healthcare Marketing Research and Management Consulting, Inc., an extremely successful network of independent healthcare marketing researchers and consultants. The organization has exclusively served the healthcare industry since 1988.

Jack has spent over 30 years in the healthcare field, including twenty years in senior marketing and marketing research positions in the pharmaceutical industry with the international or domestic divisions of such giants as Pfizer, Wyeth, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Jack M. Shapiro is a highly sought-after speaker on the future of healthcare and a great resource for media. He has appeared on many of the nation's top television networks, such as ABC, NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox, PBS, and abroad on BBC and ITN as well as countless radio shows. From 1997 through 1999, Jack was the host of the national radio show, "Medi-Politics" heard coast-to-coast by an audience of 31 million people.

Jack M. Shapiro's background includes twenty years senior marketing and market research experience in the pharmaceutical industry with the international of domestic divisions of such giants as Pfizer, Wyeth, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

He has spent over thirty years in the healthcare field, both domestically and performing projects abroad. Before forming his two successful companies, Jack M. Shapiro Healthcare Marketing Research and Management Consulting, INC. and New Paradigm Healthcare Marketing, INC., Jack held high-level management positions in marketing and market-research with healthcare giants such as: The American Home Products Corporation (Ayerst Laboratories Division), American Cyanamid (Lederle Laboratories Division), Pfizer International, E.R. Squibb, and Upjohn International.

Jack M. Shapiro holds a B.A. in history and economics from the University of Miami, and did his graduate work in international business, economics and marketing at The American Graduate School for International Management and Western Michigan University.

Jack M. Shapiro is currently writing a book about the future of healthcare, based on his long career in this field, interviews conducted on his radio show, and a major national survey of American consumers.

Drawing upon more than thirty years experience in the healthcare industry, public opinion studies and a background in television and radio as a commentator on healthcare trends, JACK SHAPIRO is a well-known public speaker whose special area of interest is "THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE".

Laced with humorous insights, anecdotes, facts and figures Jack M. Shapiro has addressed audiences from coast-to-coast regarding where the American healthcare system is heading as we enter the new millennium. His focus is on five critical areas:

* The American public's mood about healthcare at the turn of the century.
* Some of the ethical dilemmas we will encounter.
* Are we heading towards single-payer healthcare?
* The political leadership vacuum in healthcare
* Why we are becoming the "The Healthcare Economy"

Some of the many specific issues covered on "MediPolitics" included:

MEDICAL ADVANCES AND THE ECONOMICS OF HEALTHCARE:
What is the future of American healthcare?
What medical breakthroughs are on the horizon? What is the future of managed care?
Who are the uninsured and the underinsured?
Are we heading toward single-payer healthcare and medical rationing?
What's behind rising healthcare costs?
Special healthcare problems of women and minorities
Diseases of the future

POLITICS OF HEALTHCARE:
Pending healthcare legislation .
Healthcare as an election issue .
Health issues for Presidential candidates .
How political contributions affect healthcare legislation .
How the mental and physical problems of world leaders have affected the course of history .
The impact of the economy on the future of healthcare

MEDIA AND HEALTHCARE:
How media covers healthcare issues .
The future of media coverage of healthcare .
How healthcare has been depicted in movies and TV The Internet and healthcare

LAW AND HEALTHCARE:
Suing managed care .
Leading healthcare court cases .
Tobacco, abortion and gun litigation

ETHICS AND HEALTHCARE:
The ethics of gene technology .
The public's expectations of our healthcare system: Why can't I live for ever?
VIAGRA: Who should pay for it?
The premature overselling of medical "breakthroughs"