“This volume contains some of the most cogent thinking assembled to date on the defining characteristic of the U.S. health care system: fragmentation. Elhauge presents a nuanced portrait of the causes and consequences of atomized decision making in health care. At a time of national debate about the future shape of health policy, the essays contained in this book and the various paths to reform they demarcate constitute required reading.”
— Meredith B. Rosenthal
Associate Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Harvard School of Public Health
“To make sense of our nonsensical healthcare system, Professor Einer Elhauge has assembled the nation’s leading professors in law, medicine, economics, health, business, and political science. Their conversation offers a deeply incisive, nuanced, and accessible discussion. It should be required reading for every scholar of health policy and every member of Congress.”
— Amitabh Chandra
Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
“In The Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care, Professor Elhauge and his colleagues offer a rich and provocative collection of perspectives. Policymakers and researchers alike will learn from these reflections on a set of critical problems for health care reform. The volume could not be better timed.”
–Jill R. Horwitz
Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law, University of Michigan Law School
“In this illuminating volume, Einer Elhauge has assembled a top-flight interdisciplinary group of scholars to explain the root causes of the dysfunctional structures of the U.S. health care system, and to suggest possible solutions. The book is essential reading for scholars and policymakers who seek to understand the complexities of health care delivery in the U.S. and identify avenues for systemic improvement.”
–Theodore W. Ruger
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Review
“This volume contains some of the most cogent thinking assembled to date on the defining characteristic of the U.S. health care system: fragmentation. Elhauge presents a nuanced portrait of the causes and consequences of atomized decision making in health care. At a time of national debate about the future shape of health policy, the essays contained in this book and the various paths to reform they demarcate constitute required reading.”
— Meredith B. Rosenthal
Associate Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Harvard School of Public Health
“To make sense of our nonsensical healthcare system, Professor Einer Elhauge has assembled the nation’s leading professors in law, medicine, economics, health, business, and political science. Their conversation offers a deeply incisive, nuanced, and accessible discussion. It should be required reading for every scholar of health policy and every member of Congress.”
— Amitabh Chandra
Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
“In The Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care, Professor Elhauge and his colleagues offer a rich and provocative collection of perspectives. Policymakers and researchers alike will learn from these reflections on a set of critical problems for health care reform. The volume could not be better timed.”
–Jill R. Horwitz
Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law, University of Michigan Law School
“In this illuminating volume, Einer Elhauge has assembled a top-flight interdisciplinary group of scholars to explain the root causes of the dysfunctional structures of the U.S. health care system, and to suggest possible solutions. The book is essential reading for scholars and policymakers who seek to understand the complexities of health care delivery in the U.S. and identify avenues for systemic improvement.”
–Theodore W. Ruger
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Book Description
The authors examine and propose various reforms that make our health care system less fragmented, more efficient, and more medically effective.
From the Publisher
Einer Elhauge is the Petrie Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and founding director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics. He served as Chairman of the Antitrust Advisory Committee to the Obama Campaign and member of Various Health Policy Advisory Committees to that campaign. He teaches a gamut of courses ranging from Antitrust, Contracts, Corporations, Legislation, and Health Care Law. Before coming to Harvard, he was a Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, and clerked for Judge Norris on the 9th Circuit and Justice Brennan on the Supreme Court. He received both his A.B. and his J.D. from Harvard, graduating first in his law school class.
He is an author of numerous pieces on a range of topics even broader than he teaches, including antitrust (monopolization, predatory pricing, tying, bundled discounts, loyalty discounts, disgorgement, petitioning and state action immunity, and the Harvard v. Chicago schools of antitrust), public law (statutory interpretation, legislative term limits, the 2000 Presidential election, and the implications of interest group theory for judicial review), corporate law (social responsibility and sale of control doctrine), patent law (patent holdup and royalty stacking), the legal profession (the value of litigation and counseling advice), and health law policy (medical technology assessment, how to make health law a coherent legal field, and how to devise a morally just and cost effective medical system). His most recent books include
Statutory Default Rules (Harvard University Press 2008), U.S. Antitrust Law and Economics (Foundation Press 2008), and Global Competition Law and Economics (Hart Publishing 2007). Currently he is working on books about Contract Theory, Health Law Policy, and Re-engineering Human Biology, as well as articles on sundry other topics. To access his website and publications, visit http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/elhauge/.
About the Author
Einer Elhauge is the Petrie Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and founding director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics. He served as Chairman of the Antitrust Advisory Committee to the Obama Campaign and member of Various Health Policy Advisory Committees to that campaign. He teaches a gamut of courses ranging from Antitrust, Contracts, Corporations, Legislation, and Health Care Law. Before coming to Harvard, he was a Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, and clerked for Judge Norris on the 9th Circuit and Justice Brennan on the Supreme Court. He received both his A.B. and his J.D. from Harvard, graduating first in his law school class.
He is an author of numerous pieces on a range of topics even broader than he teaches, including antitrust (monopolization, predatory pricing, tying, bundled discounts, loyalty discounts, disgorgement, petitioning and state action immunity, and the Harvard v. Chicago schools of antitrust), public law (statutory interpretation, legislative term limits, the 2000 Presidential election, and the implications of interest group theory for judicial review), corporate law (social responsibility and sale of control doctrine), patent law (patent holdup and royalty stacking), the legal profession (the value of litigation and counseling advice), and health law policy (medical technology assessment, how to make health law a coherent legal field, and how to devise a morally just and cost effective medical system). His most recent books include
Statutory Default Rules (Harvard University Press 2008), U.S. Antitrust Law and Economics (Foundation Press 2008), and Global Competition Law and Economics (Hart Publishing 2007). Currently he is working on books about Contract Theory, Health Law Policy, and Re-engineering Human Biology, as well as articles on sundry other topics. To access his website and publications, visit http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/elhauge/.
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