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eChapter: Health Reform in the United States

Author(s): Joel B. Teitelbaum, JD, LLM, Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University
Sara E. Wilensky, JD, PhD, Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University
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Overview

Written by the authors of Essentials of Health Policy and Law, this stand alone electronic chapter is an in-depth examination of U.S. National Health Reform.

Key Features:

  • Describes previous national health reform attempts and examines why national health reform has been difficult to achieve in the United States
  • Explores why national health reform passed in 2010 when so many previous attempts had failed
  • Analyzes the key components of the new health reform law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

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Joel B. Teitelbaum, JD, LLM-Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University

 

Joel Teitelbaum, J.D., LL.M., is Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Health Policy, and Managing Director of the Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program, at the George Washington University (GW) School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) in Washington, D.C.  In his role as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Professor Teitelbaum provides comprehensive oversight and coordination of all the Department’s academic activities, including graduate degree programs, faculty recruitment, curriculum development, faculty teaching development and classroom evaluation processes, and faculty and student support services.  As Managing Director of the Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program, he provides day-to-day oversight of a program designed to foster an interdisciplinary approach to the study of health law, health policy, health care, and public health through educational and research opportunities for law students, health professions students, and practicing lawyers.

Professor Teitelbaum teaches a graduate health services law course, a graduate health care civil rights course, and an undergraduate survey course on health law.  He has also taught courses on public health law, minority health policy, and long-term care law and policy.  In 2009 he became the first member of the SPHHS faculty to win the GW-wide Bender Teaching Award.  He also received an SPHHS Excellence in Teaching Award for his graduate coursework and in 2007 he was inducted into the ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Professor Teitelbaum has authored or co-authored many articles, book chapters, policy papers, and reports on civil rights issues in health care, insurance law and policy, health reform and its implementation, and behavioral health care quality, and he has directed or managed many health law and policy research projects.  In 2000 he was co-recipient of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, which he used to explore the creation of a new framework for applying Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to the modern health care system.

            He is heavily involved in GW service activities: Among other things, he has served as Chair of the Medical Center Faculty Senate’s Executive Committee; Chair of the SPHHS Curriculum Committee; Chair of the Department’s Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Committee; and Co-Chair of the committee that created and implemented GW’s Bachelor of Science degree in public health.  He is also a faculty advisor to Health Leads D.C. (formerly Project HEALTH).

Professor Teitelbaum is a member of Delta Omega, the national honor society recognizing excellence in the field of public health; the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy; the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics; and the Society for American Law Teachers.

 

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Sara E. Wilensky, JD, PhD-Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University


Sara Wilensky, J.D., Ph.D., is Special Services Faculty for Undergraduate Education in the Department of Health Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services in Washington, D.C. She is also the Director of the SPHHS Undergraduate Program in Public Health.
Doctor Wilensky teaches a health policy analysis course and health systems overview course required of all students in the in the Master of Public Health-Health Policy degree program, as well as the introductory health policy course required of all undergraduate students majoring in public health. She has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator on numerous health policy research projects relating to a variety of topics, such as Medicaid coverage, access and financing, community health centers, childhood obesity, HIV preventive services, financing of public hospitals, and data sharing barriers and opportunities between public health and Medicaid agencies.
As Director of the Undergraduate Program in Public Health, Dr. Wilensky is responsible for the day-to-day management of the program, including implementation of the dual B.S./M.P.H. program.  In addition, she is responsible for faculty oversight, course scheduling, new course development, and student satisfaction.
Doctor Wilensky is involved with several GW service activities: She has taught a service learning in public health course in the undergraduate program; she has been heavily involved in making GW’s Writing in the Disciplines program part of the undergraduate major in public health; and she is the advisor to students receiving a Master in Public Policy or a Master in Public Administration with a focus on health policy from GW’s School of Public Policy and Public Administration.
            Prior to joining GW, Dr. Wilensky was a law clerk for federal Judge Harvey Bartle, III in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and worked as an associate at the law firm of Cutler and Stanfield, LLP in Denver, Colorado.

 

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