If you are looking to book Sen. Bill Frist, M.D. for a speaking engagement, here are a list of topics that you can consider having him speak on:

• Why health care spending in the U.S. is twice the average for other industrialized nations -with worse outcomes! Is the answer national health insurance or a single payor system? Are looking in the right place to reduce health spending?
• What the individual active primary care physician can do to shape health care reform and thereby affect some control over her/his destiny and ensure patient-centeredness. Are we as helpless as we think?
• A look into the crystal ball of health care reform in Washington, DC: Back to the Future (but be ready to eat crushed glass). What will happen over the next six months … and the next five years?
• Preventive health: what can be expected and at how great a cost in an era of limited resources. Is prevention really the answer to our health care woes? How can the legislators say that prevention is not cost effective?
• Obesity: A reversible epidemic that requires a multi-dimensional creative solution: the driving forces, the policy levers, and individual responsibility. A perspective from the Vice-Chair of the First Lady’s task force on obesity (and physician and policy maker).
• The inextricably intertwined relationship of the health of a community and public k-12 education. Why public education may be the most important investment we can make in improving the health of the nation.
• If skyrocketing costs of health care are really the fundamental culprit, how do we control the costs? Can competition and free markets really control health care costs: where competition has worked and where it has failed, and what we can do to make markets work.
• Comprehensive reform is attempted every 17.5 years but has never been successful. Why the current comprehensive health proposal in Washington has been impossible to pass. Lessons learned from ObamaCare: can the American health care sector be transformed from one that is “volume-driven” to one that is “value-driven?”
• Global health: Why what happens to a family in Africa matters to a family in America. Drawing upon personal experiences of practicing medicine in 7 countries in Africa.
• Global health and international relief: Reflections from personal experiences on the ground immediately after Katrina, the Tsunami, and Haiti. We are “caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.”
• A Heart to Serve: Capture your passions, shape them, and project them through action to make the world a better place (centered on Senator Frist’s 2009 book A Heart to Serve).
• Global Health: The moral imperative of saving lives around the world: How cheap, proven actions can save 10,000 of the 25,000 young children who die every day of preventable causes. By the chairman of Save the Children’s global Survive to 5 campaign.
• Revolutionary new approaches to international aid and fighting global poverty: Using a results-based, metrics-driven approach to partnering with the poorest countries of the world to lift them out of poverty through sustainable economic development (the Millennium Challenge Corporation experience).