The Affordable Care Act (ACA), through the individual health insurance markets, provided coverage for millions of Americans who could not get health insurance coverage through their employer or public programs. However, recent actions taken by the federal government, including Congress’s repeal of the individual mandate penalty, have led to uncertainty about market conditions for 2019. Market stabilization is currently the most critical regulatory issue that public policy officials are facing under the private insurance component of the ACA.

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Mark A. Hall, professor of Law and Public Health and Nonresident Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at The Brookings Institution, has released a study entitled, “Do States Regret Expanding Medicaid?” The issue brief  is the product of Wake Forest Law’s Health Law and Policy Program, which Professor Hall directs.
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Professor Mark Hall, founder and director of Wake Forest Law’s Health Law and Policy Program, will moderate a panel, “Health Care Reform: Straight Talk for Turbulent Times,” at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 24, at The Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, 2907 E Gate City Blvd., in Greensboro.

The panel is presented by UnitedHealthcare and the Triad Business Journal (TBJ) and will feature Terry Akin, CEO, Cone Health; Derek Ellington, Triad President, National For-Profit Healthcare Treasury Manager, Bank of America; Garland Scott,  CEO, UnitedHealthcare of the Carolinas and Georgia; and Skip Woody, Area Executive Vice President, Hill Chesson & Woody, a Gallagher Benefits Services Co.

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Professor Mark Hall, one of the most cited health law and policy professors and director of the law school’s Health Law and Policy Program, will speak at the 40th Annual Health Law Professors Conference at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta.

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Professor Mark Hall, director of the law school’s Health Law and Policy Program, has co-written the following piece, “Most-Cited Health Law Scholars,” with I. Glenn Cohen. Their analysis was published on Harvard Law’s Petrie-Flom Center blog on April 18, 2017.  Professor Hall is one of the nation’s leading scholars in the areas of health care law, public policy, and bioethics. The author or editor of twenty books, including Making Medical Spending Decisions (Oxford University Press), and Health Care Law and Ethics (Aspen), he is currently engaged in research in the areas of health care reform, access to care by the uninsured, and insurance regulation.

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Professor Mark Hall , director of the law school’s Health Law and Policy Program, is quoted in the following story, “Refugees, health care and hacking discussed at town hall,” written by Todd Luck and published in The Chronicle of Winston-Salem on March 23, 2017.

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Professor Mark Hall, director of the law school’s Health Law and Policy Program,  is quoted in the following story, “U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx defends her wellness programs bill,” published in the Greensboro News and Record on March 22, 2017. This story was also published in The Hickory Daily Record.

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Professor Mark Hall, director of the law school’s Health Law and Policy Program,  is quoted in the following story, “Proposed health care reform could hit Triad households, ” published in the Triad Business Journal on March 21, 2017.

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Professor Mark Hall, director of the law school’s Health Law and Policy Program, was featured in the Winston-Salem Journal story, “Iraqi immigrant says High Point welcomed him when he moved to the city,” written by John Hinton and published on March 17, 2017.

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Professor Mark Hall, director of the law school’s Health Law and Policy Program, is among experts quoted in the following story, “‘Trumpcare’ not good for N.C., observers say,” written by Cash Michaels and published by The Winston-Salem Chronicle on March 16, 2017.

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