Background
FEIN, Rashi was born on February 6, 1926 in New York, United States. Son of Isaac M. Fein and Clara (née Wertheim) Fein.
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After decades of neglect, health care for Americans became a part of social policy in the 1960s, only to fall increasingly under the influence of market-driven theorists and commerce-oriented caregivers. Rashi Fein, Professor of Economics of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and former senior staff member of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers, warns that the American health care insurance system is in jeopardy and calls for its reform. In Medical Care, Medical Costs: The Search for a Health Insurance Policy, Fein argues that the quest for efficiency in the delivery of health care services must be joined with a concern for equity in their distribution and that we need policies informed by long-held values, traditions, and experiences in the shaping of medical care delivery.
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FEIN, Rashi was born on February 6, 1926 in New York, United States. Son of Isaac M. Fein and Clara (née Wertheim) Fein.
Student, Bridgeport Junior College, 1942—1943. Bachelor, Johns Hopkins University, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1956.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), State University of New York, 1996.
Member staff President's Commission on Health Needs, 1952. From lecturer to associate professor University North Carolina, 1952-1961. Statistician Bureau of Census, 1958-1959.
Senior staff President's Council Economic Advisers, 1961-1963. Senior fellow Brookings Institute, 1963-1968. Professor Harvard University, 1968-1999, professor emeritus, since 1999.
Heath Clark lecturer London School Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1980. Chairman medical assistance advisory council to secretary Department of Health, 1967-1969. Member advisory committee research and development Social Security Administration, 1968-1971.
Member National Manpower Policy Task Force, 1967-1979, Office Technology Assessment, Health Advisory Panel, 1981-1986. Member special medical advisory group VA, 1987-1991. Member national advisory research resources council National Institutes of Health, 1995-1999, emeritus.
Chair national advisory committee Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program. Board directors Center for Child Health Research, American Academy Pediatrics.
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(Alcohol Addiction)
Author: Economics of Mental Illness, 1958, The Doctor Shortage: An Economic Diagnosis, 1967, (with Gerald Weber) Financing Medical Education: An Analysis of Alternative Policies and Mechanisms, 1971, (with Charles Lewis and David Mechanic) A Right to Health: The Problem of Access to Primary Medical Care, 1976, Alcohol in America: The Price We Pay, 1984, Medical Care, Medical Costs: The Search for a Health Insurance Policy, 1986, 89, (with Julius Richmond) The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and What It Will Take To Get Out, 2005.
Member board overseers Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, since 1972. Trustee Hebrew Senior Life, since 1976. Member committee of visitors Goucher College, since 1999.
Board directors Harvard Community Health Plan Foundation, 1980—1987. Member technical board Millbank Memorial Fund, 1975—1978, 1986—1990, board directors, 1987—1990. Member American Public Health Association, American Association of University Professors, Institute Medicine of National Academy of Sciences (Adam Yarmolinsky medal for contributions), National Academy Social Insurance, American Economic Association, American Advisory Council World Organization for Educational Resources and Technology Training Union.
Married Ruth Judith Breslau, June 19, 1949. Children: Alan, Michael, Karen, Bena (deceased).