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The conference, The New Health Care Industry: Integration, Consolidation, Competition in the Wake of the Affordable Care Act, will be held on November 13, with the celebratory launch of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School on November 12.

The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School is happy to announce that it will be hosting three distinguished health scholars this academic year.

Dr. Fins will continue his work with YLS students on legal issues related to patients with severe brain injuries.

Professor Abbe R. Gluck ’00 has joined with a group of prominent federalism scholars to defend the statutory language of the landmark Affordable Care Act (ACA) in a recently filed amicus brief.

Professor Eleanor Kinney from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law writes on Health Affairs about the evolution of a revolutionary collaborative model of regulation in Medicare that could provide a useful guide for other programs.

Professor Ted Marmor writes along with Kip Sullivan for Health Affairs on how the rise of the managed care movement and the promotion of competition in health care prevented Congress from ever seriously considering extending Medicare to all Americans in the 50 years since it was enacted.

Professor Heather Howard and Galen Benshoof, of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, writes on Health Affairs about the ACA's State Innovation Waivers Program, and how they may drive variations in health insurance and health care delivery systems throughout the states.

CEO and President, Highmark Health; Former US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, US Department of Defense

YHeLPS Summer Internships Panel, Nov. 20, 2014 Second and third year law students shared insights into applying for summer internships in health law and policy.

General Partner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe; Former Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services