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National Health Care Challenged - Is it Constitutional and Other Issues.

President Obama signs health reform legislation
- March 23, 2010. (Courtesy CNN)

The Supreme Court heard three days of arguments related to the Obama Administration's Affordable Care Act last March. Their decisions - expected by July - could have major impact on both health care policy and the 2012 elections.

The University of Maryland has faculty experts who can provide the analysis and background you need. We can also get you in touch with legal experts from University of Maryland - Baltimore. Let us know how we can help!

Experts are listed in alphabetical order. Feel free to contact our faculty experts directly.


Number of experts found: 8

 
Kenneth S. Apfel

Prof Of Practice, Lecturer

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Public management, leadership and social policy with a particular focus on aging, health care, and retirement issues.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 314 2485

kapfel@umd.edu

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Mark A. Graber

Professor, Associate Department Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies

Government & Politics

Expertise Key Words:
Politics, Constitutional Law; Human Rights; Abortion, Culture Wars, Supreme Court

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

E-mail(s)    

301-405-4215

301-588-0119

mgraber@umd.edu
mgraber@law.umaryland.edu

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Paul S. Herrnson

Professor and Director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship

Government & Politics

Expertise Key Words:
Congressional and national politics; Campaign finance reform; Voting technology; Maryland politics.

Expertise Credentials:
Paul S. Herrnson is director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship, Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland. He has published numerous books, including Voting Technology:The Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot, Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington, The Financiers of Congressional Elections, and War Stories from Capitol Hill. He has written more than 100 journal articles and book chapters and is the editor of the Real Politics in America book series with Pearson Longman.

The principal investigator of a Maryland State Board of Elections funded project to run the Maryland Elections Center, research Maryland campaign finance and voting, and provide and analyze a mechanism for delivering absentee ballots via the internet, Dr. Herrnson also has directed a National Science Foundation and Carnegie Corporation project to study voting technology and ballot design, a U.S. Election Assistance Commission project to recruit, train, and retain election judges, and the Campaign Assessment and Candidate Outreach Project, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. His current interests include Congress, political parties and elections, money and politics, and voting technology and ballot design.

Dr. Herrnson has served as President of the Southern Political Science Association and as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. He is currently President of the American Political Science Association's section on Political Organizations and Parties.

He has received several teaching awards, including an Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Maryland's College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. He has advised the U.S. Congress, the Maryland General Assembly, the Federal Election Commission, and numerous governmental and nongovernmental organizations.

Web Site(s):
Center for American Politics and Citizenship Homepage
Professor Herrnson's Homepage

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4123

herrnson@umd.edu

Address:
1106 Tawes Fine Arts Building
College Park, MD  20742

Degrees:
Ph.D., Political Science, Univesity of Wisconsin-Madison

Publication(s):
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Donald F. Kettl

Dean

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Public policy and public management with a speciality in the management of public organization; federalism; budgeting; and U.S. politics.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6971

kettl@umd.edu

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Jack A. Meyer

Prof Of Practice

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Overcoming barriers to health care access; innovative designs for extending health insurance coverage to the uninsured.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6971
202-785-3669, extension 12

jmeyer1@umd.edu

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Peter G. Morici

Professor

Logistics, Business & Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Macroeconomics, International Economics And International Business, And Government Regulation; Steel; Autos; Telecommunications; Airlines; Manufacturing; Retailing; Financial And Foreign Exchange Markets; Import And Export Issues

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2136

703-549-4338

pmorici@umd.edu

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Karoline Mortensen

Assistant Professor

Health Services Administration

Expertise Key Words:
Health insurance, health care utilization of vulnerable populations including Medicaid enrollees and the uninsured, emergency department utilization.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6545

karoline@umd.edu

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Robert H. Sprinkle, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Health-policy reform; Bioethics & biopolitics; Environmental health; Biosecurity

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 0184

301 864 2170

301 775 0320

sprinkle@umd.edu

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