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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…
By Christopher Robertson Over at the Hoover Institute’s blog, Richard Epstein recently offered a scathing critique of the Obamacare rollout, making dire predictions about adverse selection that will lead to a “death spiral.” [In defending the…
By Christopher Robertson The new American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology guidelines on how patients should manage their cholesterol are likely to dramatically increase the sales of statins. (E.g., check out the bump to Pfizer’s…
By Christopher Robertson Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Jonathan Adler has a quick take on whether President Obama has legal authority for his decision to allow non-compliant health insurance policies to remain in effect. The…
By Christopher Robertson Over at our sister blog for the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Gregg Fields has an insightful discussion of the way Obamacare has relied on private sector contractors to get its…
By Christopher Robertson The Economist has a long, detailed, and readable piece about the difficulties of inferring anything from the published findings of biomedical science. There are all sorts of problems that fall short of scientific…
By Christopher Robertson Enjoying the fall foliage in Mt. Auburn Cemetery yesterday, I came across this marker for Benjamin Waterhouse. In the overwrought language that is appropriate on a grave marker: “In 1800 he introduced…
Make sure to check out “When Truth Cannot Be Presumed: The Regulation of Drug Promotion Under an Expanding First Amendment,” by our very own blogger – and former Petrie-Flom Center Academic Fellow – Christopher Robertson.…
By Christopher Robertson I recently posted my new article “When Truth Cannot Be Presumed: The Regulation of Drug Promotion Under an Expanding First Amendment“. The article is forthcoming next year in Boston U. Law Review,…
By Christopher Robertson A minority of the Members of Congress are threatening to cause the United States government to default on its debts, unless the majority members agree to repeal or defund the Affordable Care…
