Albert Edward Lowey-Ball was born on July 8, 1942, in Delft, The Netherlands. Came to the United States, 1951. Son of Jacobus Johannes and Agatha Wilhelmina (van Uye) Lowey. Father was a chemical engineer and mother was a school teacher.
Education
Tivy Elementary School, Kerrville, TX; Oliver Junior High School, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Pershing Junior High School, Houston, TX; Bellaire Senior High School, Bellaire (Houston), TX, 1960.
Career
Economist, Public Interest Economics Center, Washington, 1971-1975; Director, Economic Analysis, Health Policy Center, Georgetown University, Washington, 1974-1976; Consultant, Orkand Corporation, Silver Spring, Maryland., 1975-1977; Economist, United States Health Care Financing Administration, Washington, 1977-1978; Executive director, California Health Facilities Commission, Sacramento, 1978-1980; Chief Executive Officer, Santa Barbara Health Initiative, 1980-1984; Director, Health Plan/Managed Care Services, Computer Sciences Corporation (DXC Technology), El Segundo, California, 1985-1987; President, Albert Lowey-Ball Associates, Inc. (ALBA), Sacramento,1987-2014; Adjunct Professor, Health Policy and Economics, Graduate School, U. of San Francisco, 1984-2005; Health Economics and Medicaid Adviser, California Program on Access to Care, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, 2003-2017; Health Economics and Policy Adviser, California Coverage and Health Initiatives, 2017-; Principal, LoweyAssociates, Health Economics Consultants, 2017-
Achievements
Works
book
Global Healthcare Markets
(Contributor: Author, Israel chapter; Editor, The Netherla...)
Other Work
Author: Hospital Cost Containment in the United States, 1980, HMOs, Managed Competition and CalPERS in the Early 1990s, 1993. Editor: Health Economics Reader, 1987.
Membership
Member Harry Truman Democratic Club, Sacramento, 1987-; Health Policy Adviser, Tom Bradley for Governor campaign, 1982; Health Insurance Adviser, Gary Hart Campaign, Washington, 1984, 1988; Member American Managed Care Review Association; Group Health Association of America, Health Care Financial Management Association (HFMA); Healthcare Information Management Systems (HIMSS); California Advocates for Public Health; Member, Local Health Plans of CA; www.linkedin.com/in/albainc
Friends of the River; Biblical Archeological Society; Sacramento County History and Science Commission
Interests
Avocations: World History, Military History, Middle Eastern Archeology, Gothic Architecture, Hiking, Poker
Philosophers & Thinkers
Albert Camus, Adam Smith, Baruch Spinoza, Henry David Thoreau
Politicians
Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Benjamin Disraeli, Michael Collins
Writers
Robert Penn Warren, William Butler Yeats, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak
Artists
Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Vermeer, John Constable, Michelangelo, Jacques-Louis David
Married Hanna Chen Sadan, November 4, 1972 (divorced October 1980), 1 son, Adam; married Joyce Corinne Johnston, February 11, 1982. Children: Jeremy, Marisa (divorced January 2005); married Natalia Sushilova, April 18, 2008, step-daughter Maria Conrad.