Opinions on Public Issues

"Amicus Brief to Supreme Court on Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofit Hospitals" Brief of Amici Curiae Economics Professors in Support of Petitioner, Federal Trade Commission v. Phoebe Putney Health System, Supreme Court of the United States, August 2, 2012.

"When States Opt Out of Expanding Medicaid, People Get Shafted" The Atlantic, July 6, 2012.

"Little Rock Amicus Brief" Brief of Health Care and Industrial Organization Economists As Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, April 29, 2010.

"The Public-Option Obsession" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 27, 2009.

"Don't Let UPMC Grab Children's Hospital," published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 1, 2001 as "Don't Let UPMC Grab Children's Hospital."

"Collective Bargaining for Doctors – Wrong Remedy for Managed Care Ills," on antitrust exemption for physicians, July 2000.

"Special Treatment for Doctors is Bad Medicine" with Deborah Haas-Wilson, published in the Chicago Tribune, February 20, 1997, as "Special Treatment for Doctors is Bad Medicine."

Public Testimony

"Health Care Industry Consolidation" Statement before the Committee on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, U.S. House of Representatives September 9, 2011.

"Countervailing Power in Health Care Markets" Testimony before Joint Federal Trade Commission/Department of Justice Hearings on Health Care and Competition Law and Policy, May 7, 2003.

"Quality and Competition in Health Care: What Do We Know? What Don't We Know?" Testimony before Joint Federal Trade Commission/Department of Justice Hearings on Health Care and Competition Law and Policy, February 26, 2003.