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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
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Kenneth S. Apfel
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Prof Of Practice, Lecturer
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School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Public management, leadership and social policy with a particular focus on aging, health care, and retirement issues.
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Expertise Credentials:
Kenneth S. Apfel joined the School's faculty in fall 2006 as Professor of the Practice. His teaching and research interests are in public management and leadership, as well as in social policy, with a particular focus on aging, health care, and retirement issues.
Before joining the School, Apfel served as the Sid Richardson Chair in Public Affairs at the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs. Prior to that, he served as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration from 1997 until his term ended in January 2001. He was the first Senate-confirmed Commissioner of Social Security after SSA became an independent agency and the new Cabinet-level position was authorized by Congress. Previously, he had served as Associate Director for Human Resources at the Office of Management and Budget, and as Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Before he joined the Clinton Administration, Apfel worked for two decades in the area of social policy, as legislative director to Senator Bill Bradley, as the Senator's chief staff person for federal social and budget policy, as staff for the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and as a Presidential Management Intern at the U.S. Department of Labor.
Apfel received his bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst , in 1970; a master's degree in rehabilitation counseling from Northeastern University in 1973; and a master's degree in public affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs in 1978. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Council for Excellence in Government.
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Web Site(s):
 Professor Apfel's Public Policy Homepage
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301 314 2485
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kapfel@umd.edu
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Address:
2202k Van Munching Hall
College Park, MD 20742
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Degrees:
M.A., Public Affairs, University of Texas-Austin
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Publication(s):
See Public Policy Web Page
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Mark A. Graber
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Professor, Associate Department Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies
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Government & Politics
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Expertise Key Words:
Politics, Constitutional Law; Human Rights; Abortion, Culture Wars, Supreme Court
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Home phone
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301-405-4215
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301-588-0119
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mgraber@umd.edu
mgraber@law.umaryland.edu
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Paul S. Herrnson
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Professor and Director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship
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Government & Politics
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Expertise Key Words:
Congressional and national politics; Campaign finance reform; Voting technology; Maryland politics.
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E-mail(s)
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301 405 4123
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herrnson@umd.edu
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Donald F. Kettl
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Dean
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School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Public policy and public management with a speciality in the management of public organization; federalism; budgeting; and U.S. politics.
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301 405 6971
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kettl@umd.edu
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Jack A. Meyer
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Prof Of Practice
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School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Overcoming barriers to health care access; innovative designs for extending health insurance coverage to the uninsured.
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E-mail(s)
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301 405 6971
202-785-3669, extension 12
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jmeyer1@umd.edu
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Peter G. Morici
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Professor
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Logistics, Business & Public Policy
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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
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Home phone
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E-mail(s)
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301 405 2136
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703-549-4338
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pmorici@umd.edu
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Karoline Mortensen
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Assistant Professor
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Health Services Administration
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Expertise Key Words:
Health insurance, health care utilization of vulnerable populations including Medicaid enrollees and the uninsured, emergency department utilization.
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301 405 6545
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karoline@umd.edu
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Robert H. Sprinkle, M.D., Ph.D.
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Associate Professor
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School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Health-policy reform; Bioethics & biopolitics; Environmental health; Biosecurity
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Home phone
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Cell phone
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301 405 0184
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301 864 2170
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301 775 0320
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sprinkle@umd.edu
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