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Health care analyst and substance abuse expert JOSEPH CALIFANO

Fresh Air

Published January 10, 1995 at 10:00 PM MST

Health care analyst and substance abuse expert JOSEPH CALIFANO. He was LBJ's assistant for domestic affairs from 1959-65 and Secretary for Health, Education and Welfare under Jimmy Carter from 1977-79. JOSEPH CALIFANO has written a book about health care reform called "Radical Surgery" (Random House) and is president of the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, a research and experimental care facility at Columbia University. Terry will be talking to him about health care reform, welfare reform and substance abuse.