STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

What really ignites my great interest in the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship for the USA program is what I call the maturing stage of my multidisciplinary career development. The convergence of my multi-national experience (six countries), academic publications, professional consultancies and senior executive experience in the American insurance industry assures me that not only my career will be greatly enhanced and enriched by such a fellowship but also my adopted country USA and the host country Hungary will benefit from it too.

The evidence for this assertion is sufficiently clear and can best be seen from my publications as highlighted। For clarity, I will briefly summarize them in the following:

1. Health Care and Health System
I have published and spoken a lot on these subjects; see, for example, " Affordable Health Care" (book and papers), "Prescriptions for Curing Global Health Care Problems", "Outcomes Measurement and Management System", "Controlling Health Care Costs in Asian Countries", "Health Care Financing Systems Around the World", "Health Care Reform Around the World", "Reforming Taiwan's NHI with Managed Competition", "Patients, Heal Thyself", " physicians, Partner with your Patients" etc.

2. Social Security Systems
I have published and spoken quite much on this subject; see, for example, "A Social Security System for the 21st Century", "Social Security Systems Around the World", "Singapore's Social Security System: A Model of Solvency for All Countries?"

3.Education and Technology
As an educator, I am so profoundly interested in education and how technology is being utilized in education and communications that I am writing my seventh book " The 3-D Society" (Distorted, Displaced and Dispirited) and my eighth book "Winning Life Strategies"। Having been so amazed at the fact that Hungary has produced so many great minds such as John von Newman, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Paul Erdos, I will be most fascinated with a close look at her education and the application of technology to it. This will be done most profitably when compared to American education(see E.D.Hirsch's "The School We Need" and "Cultural Literacy") and Asian education.

With the general description in the above of my purposes, I can now state more specifically my main goals and perceived benefits for all three parties of the proposed EEF USA program:
a. To enhance and broaden my international expertise in health care, health systems and social security systems. In return, I can inform and advise the host country based on my expertise in these areas. To my country USA, my expanded expertise will be transferred quickly via SOA meetings and my writings and publications to U.S. audiences and readers.

b. To enhance and enrich my understanding of education and the application of technology in education and communications. In return, I can inform and share with the host country my knowledge in these areas. To my country USA, my expanded knowledge will be transferred via professional societies ( I am a member of twelve such societies) to U.S. audiences and readers.

c. To more fully develop myself as a great American international consultant and advisor on multiple disciplines and interdisciplinary projects.