Christopher Robertson, JD, PhD
Presented on Wednesday, May 20, 2020 – 4:00 PM MST
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Christopher Robertson, JD, PhD, authored Exposed; Why Our Health Insurance is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About Itin 2019. The book is a culmination of a decade of scholarly research and Robertson shares the findings in his book with us in this webinar.The passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 was an initial attempt of the US government to reshape and reimagine health care insurance for Americans, but that insurance still leaves patients with cost-sharing their health costs through deductibles, copayments, and coinsurances. While the economic theory of cost-sharing “empowers patients to make cost–benefit tradeoffs, encourages thrift and efficiency in a system rife with waste, and defends against the moral hazard that can arise from insurance,” Robertson finds that the reality is that patients are avoiding care or being driven to bankruptcy or foreclosure. In this webinar, Robertson describes an alternative framework and avenues of reform that can lead to more promising models.
Christopher Robertson is Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Professor of Law at the University of Arizona. He is affiliated faculty with the Petrie Flom Center for Health Care Policy, Bioethics and Biotechnology at Harvard, and a reporter for the Health Law Monitoring Committee of the Uniform Law Commission. Robertson also founded the Regulatory Science Program, with support from the University’s four health science colleges.
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