Prof. Timothy Jost on Health Care

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11/9/2009 - Wider Oversight Looms for Insurers
Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost comments in an WSJ story about an effort by Democratic lawmakers to strip health insurers of their protection from certain federal antitrust laws.    
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11/8/2009 - Compromises get U.S. health bill through
Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost comments in a Globe and Mail story examining the compromises between lawmakers that facilitated the passage of the U.S. House health care reform bill.   
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10/31/2009 - Tim Jost on the House Health Reform Bill
Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost guest blogs at the Health Affairs website on the House Health Reform Bill, HR 3962.   
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10/28/2009 - Pulling a trigger on the public option
Research by Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost is cited in this Forbes column examining a trigger for a public health care plan.   
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10/28/2009 - Constitutionality of Health Overhaul Questioned
Washington and Lee law professor Timothy Stoltzfus Jost discusses the constitutionality of requiring individuals to purchase health care in the Washington Times.   
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10/22/2009 - Antitrust move poses few risks to health insurers
Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost comments in an AP story about an effort by Democratic lawmakers to strip health insurers of their protection from certain federal antitrust laws.   
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10/22/2009 - More for the Wish List
Washington and Lee Law Professor Tim Jost discusses the Finance Committe health reform bill on The New Republic blog, The Treatment, a must-read guide to health care reform.   
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10/5/2009 - Health Insurance Exchanges: Will They Work?
Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost comments in a New York Times article examining the viability of health insurance exchanges.   
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10/2/2009 - Senator Eyes Health Co-Ops for all 50 States
On NPR's Morning Edition, law professor and health care expert Tim Jost comments on the pros and cons off health insurance cooperatives, which are being pushed as a solution to the health care crisis by Senate Finance Committee member Kent Conrad.
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9/28/2009 - In Some States, a Push to Ban Mandate on Insurance
As the debate over the constitutionality of a health insurance mandate continues, lawmakers in some states are pushing ahead with state constitutional amendments that would outlaw the requirement. Health care expert Tim Jost comments on the chances of these state amendments challenging federal law.
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9/18/2009 - Health Care Abroad: Switzerland
In the New York Times blog "Prescriptions: Making Sense of the Health Care Debate," health care expert Tim Jost discusses his research on Swiss and Dutch health care systems.
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9/15/2009 - Health Insurance Co-ops
Health Care experts discuss the co-op option in this podcast from The Take Away
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9/10/2009 - Experts Sound Off on Obama's Health Care Speech
Following President Obama's speech on health care reform Wednesday night, the ABC News Medical Unit solicited comments from some of the country's leading health care policy experts, including Prof. Tim Jost.
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9/9/2009 - Triggernometry
At Slate.com, Prof. Jost comments on the idea of a legislative trigger for health care reform, a deadline for insurance companies to expand coverage and lower costs before Congress enacts a public option. Jost argues that these types of legislative tools have an poor history, especially when it comes to health care.
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9/5/2009 - Wash. health co-op part of health reform debate
Group Health Cooperative was started in Washington state more than six decades ago. Now, the Seattle-based co-op that serves nearly 600,000 people in Washington state and Idaho is being mentioned as a potential model in the national health care reform debate.
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9/2/2009 - An American Checks Up On German Health Care
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost writes a lot about health care systems in Europe, but this year the Washington and Lee University Law School professor had the unenviable opportunity of comparing the U.S. and German systems first-hand.
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8/31/2009 - Ensuring Health-Care Reform is Legal
In this Letter to the Editor from the Washington Post, Prof. Jost takes issue with a claim from another editorial that some proposals for national health-care reform are unconstitutional.
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8/27/2009 - Reform of Private Insurance Not Enough
Prof. Jost participated in a conference call with reporters to discuss his new report "Private health insurance reformed: Better, but without public plan choice, not good enough,"which finds that private health insurance reform is not enough in itself to accomplish the major goals of health care reform, and why a public option is indispensable in controlling costs, promoting competition, and ensuring coverage for all.
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8/25/2009 - NPR: Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane
After months of getting nowhere on a public option for health care reform, some lawmakers are suggesting that health insurance cooperatives may provide a solution to escalating health costs and improving care. Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost joins Marty to explain how both health cooperatives and a public plan might work.
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8/24/2009 - What's in it for you
In this opinion piece from the Roanoke Times, Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost argues that all Americans, even those with insurance, will benefit from health care reform.
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8/21/2009 - Online Chat with Tim Jost at Politico.com
Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost participated in a web chat in Politico.com's Arena, the site's daily debate with policymakers and decision shapers.    
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8/21/2009 - No Health Care Middle Ground As Dems And GOP Scorn Co-ops
 from Investors.com

8/20/2009 - Health insurance debate turns to issue of co-ops
 from USA Today

8/20/2009 - Will Health Reform Get Its Own Overhaul?
 from SmartMoney.com

8/19/2009 - Health co-ops need same shields as public plan
A recent opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle cites research by Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost on the history and success of health cooperatives.
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8/18/2009 - Are health care co-ops a better alternative to public option?
In this CNN report, Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost reacts to the idea of health care co-ops being pushed by Sen, Ken Conrad (D, North Dakota) and others as an alternative to a public plan.
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8/18/2009 - 'Public Option' or Co-Op? Experts Sound Off
In this report from ABC News, Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost argues that past nonprofit co-ops could not, or would not, compete with private insurers.
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8/17/2009 - Insurance Cooperatives Raise More Questions Than Answers
From Fox News: The White House, facing strong opposition to a government-run program as a vital part of health care reform, said it is open to accepting them as an alternative to a "public option." But health policy analysts like Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost say the idea adds little clarity to an already muddled debate.
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8/17/2009 - So What's a Health Insurance Co-op, Anyway?
In this interview with the New York Times, Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost discusses nonprofit health co-ops, which have taken center stage in the health care reform debate after support for a public plan diminished.   
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8/14/2009 - The Truth Behind the Death Panel
With charges, countercharges, information, disinformation, flat-out lies, and half truths being disseminated on all sides of the health reform debates, how is a poor citizen to learn the real story? Washington and Lee Law professor Tim Jost helps out in the Columbia Journalism Review's Straight Talk column.   
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7/7/2009 - Jost Participates in CNBC Health Care Debate
Washington and Lee law professor and health care system expert Tim Jost appeared on CNBC's Closing Bell on Tuesday to participate in a debate on public health care plans.   
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7/6/2009 - Do Health Co-ops Offer Model for Overhaul?
Washington and Lee law professor and health care system expert Tim Jost comments in a New York Times article exploring the viability health insurance cooperatives.   
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6/16/2009 - What Could Stop Obama on Health Care Reform
Washington and Lee Law Professor Tim Jost is participating in a discussion about health care reform in Politico.com's Arena, the site's daily debate with policymakers and decision shapers.   
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Essays on Health Care

Health Insurance Exchanges in Health Care Reform Legal and Policy Issues

Making a Cooperative Work

Public Plan or Cooperative: Does it Make a Difference?

Local Cooperatives Will Not Work for Rural America

State Run Programs are not a Viable Option for Creating a Public Plan

Trigger Happy: Don't Kill Public Plan Choice

Trigger Unhappy: What Experience Can Teach Us about Why We Should Not Delay the Implementation of Public Plan Choice

Risk Selection by Private Health Insurers: Why Regulation Alone Cannot Solve the Problem

The Role of a Public Health Insurance Plan in a Competitive Market: Lessons from International Experience

The Experience of Switzerland and the Netherlands with Individual Health Insurance Mandates: A Model for the United States?