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Christopher Robertson

  • Events

    Open Payments: Early Impact And The Next Wave Of Reform

    By Tony Caldwell and Christopher Robertson This new post by Tony Caldwell and Christopher Robertson appears on the Health Affairs Blog, as part of a series stemming from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School…

    Open Payments: Early Impact And The Next Wave Of Reform

  • Conflicts of Interest

    The Father of Sunshine

    By Christopher Robertson Over at our sister blog for the Safra Center’s Institutional Corruption Lab, Paul Thacker has a great post about how the Physician’s Payments Sunshine Act came to exist. The new database created…

    The Father of Sunshine

  • Health Insurance & Coverage

    The Political Economy of Medicaid Expansion

    By Christopher Robertson Many health law profs have wondered about how state officials can turn down bucketloads of federal money, without suffering the ire of their local constituents.  In states like Arizona, that frustration was spoken most…

    The Political Economy of Medicaid Expansion

  • Behavioral Economics

    #BELHP2014 Plenary 1, Provost Alan Garber

    By Christopher Robertson [Ed. Note: On Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3, 2014, the Petrie-Flom Center hosted its 2014 annual conference: “Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy.”  This is the first installment in our series of live blog posts…

    #BELHP2014 Plenary 1, Provost Alan Garber

  • Teaching Health Law

    Open Questions in Health Law?

    By Christopher Robertson As I prepare to teach the health law survey course here at HLS in the spring, I am putting together some exercises for students to work on “open questions” in the field.…

    Open Questions in Health Law?

  • Conflicts of Interest

    Progress is Possible in the Institutional Corruption of Healthcare

    By Christopher Robertson Today, there are two big stories that relate to the “institutional corruption” of medicine (aka conflicts of interests).  For those who have been working long and hard on these issues, they are…

    Progress is Possible in the Institutional Corruption of Healthcare

  • Biotechnology

    Two Pills: “That Will Be $307,000, please.”

    By Christopher Robertson So reads the cover of the MIT Technology Review this month.  The article is available for free online.  The article begins with the story of Kalydeco, which is priced at $294,000 per…

    Two Pills: “That Will Be $307,000, please.”

  • Petrie-Flom Center

    Behavioral Economics for Health Law

    By Christopher Robertson This year, the PFC’s annual conference will focus on “Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy” (the call for abstracts deadline is next week).   Apropos, last week, Reuters featured a story by Jill…

    Behavioral Economics for Health Law