MEDIA ADVISORY: Yale experts offer insights on health care ruling
The following Yale faculty members are available to comment on the United States Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of President Obama’s 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Their expertise spans political science, economics, public health, clinical care, and law.
Those seeking additional legal experts may contact the Yale Law School Office of Public Affairs: Jan Conroy, Director of Communications, 203 432-4849; janet.conroy@yale.edu
Kathy Colello, News Director, 203 432-4854; kathleen.colello@yale.edu
Jacob Hacker, director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale
Office: 203-432-5554
http://www.yale.edu/polisci/people/jhacker.html
Harlan Krumholz, M.D., the Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Investigative Medicine and of Public Health (Health Policy)
Cell: 203-641-2501
Office: 203-764-5885
http://publichealth.yale.edu/people/harlan_krumholz.profile
Jennifer Prah Ruger, associate professor of health policy, Yale School of Public Health, and adjunct associate professor of law, Yale Law School
Cell: 203-530-8931
http://publichealth.yale.edu/news/archive/2012/reformjpr.aspx
Mark Schlesinger, professor of health policy, Yale University School of Public Health
Cell: 609-529-4646
Office: 203-785-4619
http://publichealth.yale.edu/people/mark_schlesinger-3.profile
Zach Cooper, assistant professor at Yale School of Public Health and in the Department of Economics at Yale. Cooper is a health economist and an expert in health care policy.
Cell: 917-648-0822
Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science
http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/BAckerman.htm
Akhil Amar, Sterling Professor of Law
http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/AAmar.htm
Jack Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment
http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/JBalkin.htm
Stephen Carter, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law
http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/SCarter.htm
Bill Eskridge, the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence
http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/WEskridge.htm
Heather Gerken, the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law
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Karen N. Peart: karen.peart@yale.edu, 203-980-2222