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Prescription For Bankruptcy:
America's Failing Health Care "non-system"

Why do Americans pay more than citizens of any other country for health care and yet have, at best, mediocre health outcomes? Dr. Edward Hoffer will discuss this topic, and suggest both global solutions and practical things you can do to pay less and get better care.

 

Our speaker, Edward Hoffer MD

Edward Hoffer MD is a graduate of MIT and Harvard Medical School and did his residency and fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Hoffer has held faculty academic appointments at Harvard, the University of Massachusetts, and Boston University. He has also held appointments at several Boston hospitals (Peter Bent Brigham, Beth Israel, Boston Hospital for Women), at many Boston metro-west hospitals (in Worcestor, Natick, and Framingham), and at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington. He has either authored or co-authored over 80 publications, including 8 books and dozens of refereed journal articles, many of which deal with the application of computers to various aspects of medicine and with issues within the American healthcare system (insurance, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, etc.).

For 45 years he combined clinical practice of Internal Medicine and Cardiology with research on the applications of computers and AI to medical care, and continues to work half-time at the MGH Lab of Computer Science.

He has written and lectured extensively on the problems of the American healthcare "non-system."

 

Lunch at Alberto's Ristorante

We will be returning to Alberto's Ristorante in Hyannis because of the many rave reviews we received for the food and service in the past.

There will be a cash bar and we will be offering the same entrees as before (gluten-free is available upon request). All meals include a house salad and Tartuffo dessert.

• Chicken Parmagian - Breaded chicken cutlet topped with tomato sauce and melted cheese. Served with penne pasta.
  
  
• Pork Osso Bucco - Pork shank cooked with celery, carrots, and onions in a Barolo wine sauce. Served with mashed potatoes broccoli.
  
  
• Baked Scrod - Fresh baked scrod with seasoned breadcrumbs, white wine, and lemon touch of butter. Served with pasta and vegetables.
  
  
• Farcite Napoletana (vegetarian) - Eggplant rolled & stuffed with ricotta cheese, baked with San Marzano plum tomato sauce & three cheeses. Served with penne pasta.

 

Contact

capecodEvents@alum.mit.edu

Learn More 2025-05-15 15:30:00 2025-05-15 18:30:00 UTC Prescription for Bankruptcy: America's Failing Health Care "non-system" Prescription For Bankruptcy:America's Failing Health Care "non-system" Why do Americans pay more than citizens of any other country for health care and yet have, at best, mediocre health outcomes? Dr. Edward Hoffer will discuss this topic, and suggest both global solutions and practical things you can do to pay less and get better care.   Our speaker, Edward Hoffer MD Edward Hoffer MD is a graduate of MIT and Harvard Medical School and did his residency and fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Hoffer has held faculty academic appointments at Harvard, the University of Massachusetts, and Boston University. He has also held appointments at several Boston hospitals (Peter Bent Brigham, Beth Israel, Boston Hospital for Women), at many Boston metro-west hospitals (in Worcestor, Natick, and Framingham), and at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington. He has either authored or co-authored over 80 publications, including 8 books and dozens of refereed journal articles, many of which deal with the application of computers to various aspects of medicine and with issues within the American healthcare system (insurance, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, etc.). For 45 years he combined clinical practice of Internal Medicine and Cardiology with research on the applications of computers and AI to medical care, and continues to work half-time at the MGH Lab of Computer Science. He has written and lectured extensively on the problems of the American healthcare "non-system."   Lunch at Alberto's Ristorante We will be returning to Alberto's Ristorante in Hyannis because of the many rave reviews we received for the food and service in the past. There will be a cash bar and we will be offering the same entrees as before (gluten-free is available upon request). All meals include a house salad and Tartuffo dessert. Chicken Parmagian - Breaded chicken cutlet topped with tomato sauce and melted cheese. Served with penne pasta. Pork Osso Bucco - Pork shank cooked with celery, carrots, and onions in a Barolo wine sauce. Served with mashed potatoes broccoli. Baked Scrod - Fresh baked scrod with seasoned breadcrumbs, white wine, and lemon touch of butter. Served with pasta and vegetables. Farcite Napoletana (vegetarian) - Eggplant rolled & stuffed with ricotta cheese, baked with San Marzano plum tomato sauce & three cheeses. Served with penne pasta.   Club of Cape Cod capecodEvents@alum.mit.edu

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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Wôpanâak was the language spoken by the indiginous people living in this region when the Pilgrims arrived in 1620.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">After a couple hundred years of colonial laws, wars, and diseases, hundreds of Wôpanâak tribes were reduced to four small fragmented communities, and the </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">last people for whom Wôpanâak was their first language passed away in the mid 1850's. It took only a few more generations for all traces of spoken Wôpanâak to completely fade away, with the decendants speaking only English after that.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>OUR SPEAKERS:</strong></span></p>
<p><img src="https://d21hwc2yj2s6ok.cloudfront.net/shrine_store/uploads/networks/143…; alt="" width="150" height="150"><br>Jessie (Little Doe) Baird</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Jessie (Little Doe) Baird</strong> is the Director of Linguistics, Lead Linguist, and a co-founder of the <a href="https://www.wlrp.org/"><strong>Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project</strong></a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">In the early 1990's she had dreams in which people were speaking in an unfamiliar language, and soon after that she thought that the language might be Wôpanâak, the language spoken by her ancestors.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">This inspired her to start researching everything she could find out about the original Wôpanâak language, and in 1993 she co-founded the<strong> </strong>Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project with the long-term goal of revitalizing the language, which had not be spoken for seven generations, for the people now living within the remaining anoag tribes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Because something like that had never been done before, there were many who thought that it was not even possible. But Jessie was undeterred. In her quest, she gained admission to MIT where she learned how to apply modern linguistic techniques coupled with historical records in order to understand original Wôpanâak grammar and to create a dictionary of 10,000 Wôpanâak words. (And she did all this while commuting between her home on Cape Cod and Cambridge while also raising four children).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">For this seminal work, Jessie was granted a <strong>Masters in Linguistic Science from MIT</strong> in 2000.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>In recognition of this and other brilliant achievements</strong> ...</span></p>
<ul>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">In 2010, Jessie was honored with a <strong>MacArthur Fellowship</strong> (a.k.a MacArthur Genius Award).</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">In 2017, Jessie received and <strong>Honorary Doctorate in Social Sciences from Yale University</strong>.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">In 2020, Jessie was named one of <strong>USA Today's "Woman of the Century."</strong></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Jessie and her work on Wôpanâak language reconstruction are the subject of a PBS documentary: <a href="https://www.makepeaceproductions.com/video-wamp-trailer.html"><em>We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân</em></a>, directed by Anne Makepeace.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Jessie also serves as the vice-chairwoman of the <a title="Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashpee_Wampanoag_Tribe">Mashpee Wôpanâak Indian Tribal Council</a>. </span></p>
<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><img src="https://d21hwc2yj2s6ok.cloudfront.net/shrine_store/uploads/networks/143… Kelley</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Tracy Kelly</strong> is the Director of Programming for the <span style="font-size: 16px;"> <a href="https://www.wlrp.org/"><strong>Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project</strong></a>. She was granted a <strong>Master in LInguistic Science from MIT</strong> in 2020.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Our Annual Education Event</strong></span></p>
<p>Prior to our presentation, <strong>Carol Bogin</strong>, our club's VP for Education Programs, will briefly report about all the education activities and awards for this year, highlighting the many ways we support the MIT Club of Cape Cod's primary missions to promote STEM education on the Cape and the Islands, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>The Lynn Bruneau Scholarship, which is awarded to all Cape Cod high school seniors matriculating into MIT.<br> </li>
<li>$600 mini grants, primarily awarded to Cape Cod secondary schools, for STEM-related projects.<br> </li>
<li>STEM Book Awards for the top STEM juniors at 17 Cape Cod schools, consisting of a commendation letter, a certificate suitable for framing, the book "Nightwork" (an illustrated collection of memorable MIT Hacks) and a $100 Amazon gift card with which the awardee can use to purchase a number of STEM-related books from Amazon.<br> </li>
<li>Full sponsorship for all Cape Cod teacher accepted into MIT's SEPT (<a href="https://sept.mit.edu/">Science and Engineering Program for Teachers</a>) summer program.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Lunch at Alberto's Ristorante</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">We will be returning to Alberto's Ristorante in Hyannis because of the many rave reviews we received for the food and service in the past.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">There will be a <strong>cash bar</strong> and we will be offering the same entrees as before (gluten-free is available upon request). All meals include a <strong>house salad</strong> and <strong>Tartuffo dessert</strong>.</span></p>
<ul>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Chicken Parmagian</strong> - Breaded chicken cutlet topped with tomato sauce and melted cheese. Served with penne pasta.<br><br></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Pork Osso Bucco</strong> - Pork shank cooked with celery, carrots, and onions in a Barolo wine sauce. Served with mashed potatoes broccoli.<br><br></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Baked Scrod</strong> - Fresh baked scrod with seasoned breadcrumbs, white wine, and lemon touch of butter. Served with pasta and vegetables.<br><br></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Farcite Napoletana</strong> (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">vegetarian</span>) - Eggplant rolled &amp;amp; stuffed with ricotta cheese, baked with San Marzano plum tomato sauce &amp;amp; three cheeses. Served with penne pasta.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal link-bold"> </p>

Contact

capecodEvents@alum.mit.edu

Learn More 2025-06-11 21:00:00 2025-06-12 00:30:00 UTC The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;Wôpanâak was the language spoken by the indiginous people living in this region when the Pilgrims arrived in 1620.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;After a couple hundred years of colonial laws, wars, and diseases, hundreds of Wôpanâak tribes were reduced to four small fragmented communities, and the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;last people for whom Wôpanâak was their first language passed away in the mid 1850&#039;s. It took only a few more generations for all traces of spoken Wôpanâak to completely fade away, with the decendants speaking only English after that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OUR SPEAKERS:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://d21hwc2yj2s6ok.cloudfront.net/shrine_store/uploads/networks/143…; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;150&quot; height=&quot;150&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;Jessie (Little Doe) Baird&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jessie (Little Doe) Baird&lt;/strong&gt; is the Director of Linguistics, Lead Linguist, and a co-founder of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wlrp.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;In the early 1990&#039;s she had dreams in which people were speaking in an unfamiliar language, and soon after that she thought that the language might be Wôpanâak, the language spoken by her ancestors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;This inspired her to start researching everything she could find out about the original Wôpanâak language, and in 1993 she co-founded the&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project with the long-term goal of revitalizing the language, which had not be spoken for seven generations, for the people now living within the remaining anoag tribes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;Because something like that had never been done before, there were many who thought that it was not even possible. But Jessie was undeterred. In her quest, she gained admission to MIT where she learned how to apply modern linguistic techniques coupled with historical records in order to understand original Wôpanâak grammar and to create a dictionary of 10,000 Wôpanâak words. (And she did all this while commuting between her home on Cape Cod and Cambridge while also raising four children).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;For this seminal work, Jessie was granted a &lt;strong&gt;Masters in Linguistic Science from MIT&lt;/strong&gt; in 2000.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In recognition of this and other brilliant achievements&lt;/strong&gt; ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;In 2010, Jessie was honored with a &lt;strong&gt;MacArthur Fellowship&lt;/strong&gt; (a.k.a MacArthur Genius Award).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;In 2017, Jessie received and &lt;strong&gt;Honorary Doctorate in Social Sciences from Yale University&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;In 2020, Jessie was named one of &lt;strong&gt;USA Today&#039;s &quot;Woman of the Century.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;Jessie and her work on Wôpanâak language reconstruction are the subject of a PBS documentary: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.makepeaceproductions.com/video-wamp-trailer.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, directed by Anne Makepeace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;Jessie also serves as the vice-chairwoman of the &lt;a title=&quot;Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe&quot; href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashpee_Wampanoag_Tribe&quot;&gt;Mashpee Wôpanâak Indian Tribal Council&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://d21hwc2yj2s6ok.cloudfront.net/shrine_store/uploads/networks/143… Kelley&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tracy Kelly&lt;/strong&gt; is the Director of Programming for the &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wlrp.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. She was granted a &lt;strong&gt;Master in LInguistic Science from MIT&lt;/strong&gt; in 2020.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Our Annual Education Event&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prior to our presentation, &lt;strong&gt;Carol Bogin&lt;/strong&gt;, our club&#039;s VP for Education Programs, will briefly report about all the education activities and awards for this year, highlighting the many ways we support the MIT Club of Cape Cod&#039;s primary missions to promote STEM education on the Cape and the Islands, including:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;The Lynn Bruneau Scholarship, which is awarded to all Cape Cod high school seniors matriculating into MIT.&lt;br&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;$600 mini grants, primarily awarded to Cape Cod secondary schools, for STEM-related projects.&lt;br&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;STEM Book Awards for the top STEM juniors at 17 Cape Cod schools, consisting of a commendation letter, a certificate suitable for framing, the book &quot;Nightwork&quot; (an illustrated collection of memorable MIT Hacks) and a $100 Amazon gift card with which the awardee can use to purchase a number of STEM-related books from Amazon.&lt;br&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Full sponsorship for all Cape Cod teacher accepted into MIT&#039;s SEPT (&lt;a href=&quot;https://sept.mit.edu/&quot;&gt;Science and Engineering Program for Teachers&lt;/a&gt;) summer program.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lunch at Alberto&#039;s Ristorante&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;We will be returning to Alberto&#039;s Ristorante in Hyannis because of the many rave reviews we received for the food and service in the past.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;There will be a &lt;strong&gt;cash bar&lt;/strong&gt; and we will be offering the same entrees as before (gluten-free is available upon request). All meals include a &lt;strong&gt;house salad&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Tartuffo dessert&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chicken Parmagian&lt;/strong&gt; - Breaded chicken cutlet topped with tomato sauce and melted cheese. Served with penne pasta.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pork Osso Bucco&lt;/strong&gt; - Pork shank cooked with celery, carrots, and onions in a Barolo wine sauce. Served with mashed potatoes broccoli.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Baked Scrod&lt;/strong&gt; - Fresh baked scrod with seasoned breadcrumbs, white wine, and lemon touch of butter. Served with pasta and vegetables.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Farcite Napoletana&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;vegetarian&lt;/span&gt;) - Eggplant rolled &amp;amp;amp; stuffed with ricotta cheese, baked with San Marzano plum tomato sauce &amp;amp;amp; three cheeses. Served with penne pasta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal link-bold&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt; Club of Cape Cod capecodEvents@alum.mit.edu