I'm delighted to report that Prof. David Hyman of the University of Illinois law school will be joining us as a co-blogger. David directs the Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy, and focuses his research and writing on the regulation and financing of health care. He teaches or has taught health care regulation, civil procedure, insurance law, law and economics, professional responsibility, and tax policy.
While serving as Special Counsel to the Federal Trade Commission, David was principal author and project leader for the Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition report (2004). He also wrote Medicare Meets Mephistopheles, a satiric examination of the Medicare program, which was selected by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce/National Chamber Foundation as one of the top ten books of 2007.
David is a member of the American Law Institute, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and an M.D. as well as a lawyer. Welcome, David, to our merry band!
Don't you mean "merry conspiracy"? On second thought, conspiracies usually aren't very merry...
Welcome!
JHA
First, do no harm.
I'm thrilled!
Now, Dr., I need a little advice. I've got this odd pain in my side . . . .
Warmest Welcome,
Jim Lindgren
On the offchance that improving healthcare relates to financing it and to insurance, may retirees from companies who provide health insurance to retirees, premium contributions from both company and retiree, use Health Savings Accounts? If not, why not? And, should that be a choice instead of or alongside of Medicare?
Its not too late. Oops, scratch that. Welcome.I've got some of the same doubts you do, but I think it is better form online and in general not to be pre-disappointed -- in this instance, in the views you expect the new commentator to hold. Maybe he'll surprise you. After all, if we know just what the other person will say (and, unfortunately, in thinking we know, we are much more likely to hear it regardless of what is said) then why carry on the conversation?
That's enough, I'm going to Talking Points Memo and The Plank, where I won't have to deal with all the careful reasoning and rigorous thought.
Of course, readers will be left picking up the tab for yet more titled positions (i.e., tenured, unionized, patronage jobs doled out in the spirit of simony and nepotism) in the academic departments used by marketers at the great fund-raising institutions (e.g., UCLA, George Mason, etc.) in this country.