In this classic text, William G. Weissert and Carol S. Weissert describe how government and private interests help define health policy. Under the Obama administration, the federal government took a broadened role in setting health policy and insurance regulations. But the succeeding Trump...

The genesis of this piece lies in two seemingly unrelated events in law and public health, the governmental response to the Ebola crisis, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, sparked by religious objections to certain employer mandates under the Affordable Care Act. While...

From my vantage point as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow working for a prominent moderate Democratic senator on a key committee, I observed the machinations of the supporters, opponents, and influencers of health reform legislation. This paper compares the strategy...