Prof. Timothy Jost on Health Care
Media Appearances
6/22/2011 - W&L Law Professor Tim Jost Writes about Medicaid in Recent Oped
In this opinion piece, Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost argues that proposed Medicaid block grant programs will reduce health care funding for those Virginians most in need. 
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4/26/2011 - Supreme Court Won't Expedite Health Care Challenge
Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost comments in a National Public Radio report on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to deny a petition by Virginia'a sttorney general to fast-track a challenge to the constitutionality of the 2010 health care law. Read the article
3/30/2011 - Obama Admin. Delaying Some Rules for Appealing Health Insurance Denials
Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost comments in a Los Angeles Times article exploring delays in the enforcement of some new rules designed to protect patients who appeal insurers' decisions to deny or reduce health care benefits. Read the article
3/22/2011 - Democrats Play Down First Birthday of ObamaCare
On the first anniversary of the signing of the health care law, Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost comments in a Globe and Mail article on the challenges faced by the Obama administration in implementing the law. Read the article
2/17/2011 - Law Professor Comments on Alaska Governor Refusing to Enact Health Care Law
Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost comments on Alaska governor Sean Parnell's decision not to implement the new Health Care Law after a Florida judge struck down the law as unconstitutional. Read the article
2/1/2011 - Experts React after Florida Federal Judge Strikes Down Health Care Law
Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost is quoted in several media outlets on the ruling issued by Senior Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida striking down the nation's new health care reform law. Read the article
1/28/2011 - Tim Jost Discusses Attacks on Medicare's Independent Advisory Board
In the CT Mirror, Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost discusses plans to dismantle the Independent Payment Advisory Board, created to make decisions about Medicare costs. Read the article
1/19/2011 - Law Professor Discusses Cost of Affordable Care Act Repeal
In an opinion piece at Politico.com, Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost discusses the potential costs if the Affordable Care Act is repealed. Read the article
12/14/2010 - Examining Judge Hudson’s Decision On The Individual Mandate
In a post on the Health Affairs blog, Washington and Lee law professor Timothy S. Jost analyzes the recent decision by a Virginia judge holding a provision of the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. Read the article
12/13/2010 - A Fatal Blow to Obama's Health Care Law?
Washington and Lee law professor Timothy S. Jost joins a panel on the New York Times Room for Debate page to discuss the federal judge's decision rejecting the insurance mandate. Read the article
10/22/2010 - Tim Jost Discusses New Guidelines for Health Insurance Spending
Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost discusses new standards adopted by state insurance commissioners that will guide how health insurance companies spend premium dollars. Read the article
10/8/2010 - Is the Health Care Law Legal? The Experts Dig Into Thursday's Ruling
Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost joins other health care reform experts in evaluating the recent decision in Thomas More Law Center v. Obama upholding the constitutionality of the new health care law. 
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9/23/2010 - Health Reform Starts Today to Help the 'Underinsured'
In this opinion piece in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost argues that one of the most important immediate effects of health care reform will be to protect America's underinsured. Read the article
9/3/2010 - Law Professor Discusses Health Care Myths
On NPR's Morning Edition, Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost discusses some of the common myths and exaggerations surrounding health care reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Read the article
8/9/2010 - Health Care Battle Heats Up
Washington and Lee law professor Tim Josts comments in a National Law Journal story looking at the three key challenges to health care reform under way in the federal courts. Read the article
6/14/2010 - Seeing Threat to Individual Policies, State Officials Urge a Gradual Route to Change
Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost comments in a New York Times article examining whether the new health care law will cause health insurance companies to cancel policies and leave the individual insurance market. Read the article
5/26/2010 - The Independent Payment Advisory Board
In this New England Journal of Medicine article, Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost explains the Independent Payment Advisory Board that will oversee health care system costs. Read the article
5/25/2010 - Health-care overhaul offers insurance benefits to young adults
Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost comments in a Washington Post article exploring how health care reform legislation may strengthen student health plans available to graduate students. Read the article
5/24/2010 - Episcopal Oversight: How the Bishops Conference Gets Health-Care Legislation Wrong
In this essay from Commonweal, an independent journal of opinion edited by lay Catholics, Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost contends that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops continues to misunderstand what the new health care legislation does. Read the article
4/12/2010 - Sanction the 18 State AGs
According to Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost, the suit challenging the new health care law represents shoddy lawyering,and he thinks the attorneys who brought this case should have to bear the cost of defending this litigation. Read the article
3/24/2010 - Health Bill Lawsuits Are Going Nowhere
In this opinion piece, a Special to CNN, Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost argues that lawsuits challenging the new health reform bill will fail because the states are misreading the law. Read the article
3/22/2010 - State Challenges to Health Care
Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost discusses on C-SPAN state efforts to block the insurance requirements in the health care legislation, and how the Commerce Clause of the Tenth Amendment could play into the challenges. Read the article
3/21/2010 - Expert Fields Questions on Health Overhaul
Timothy Jost, a law professor at Washington and Lee University and co-author of "Health Law," the nation's standard textbook for that subject, provides an overview of what Americans can expect when the health care overhaul is enacted. Read the article
3/17/2010 - Abortion Still A Sticking Point In Health Care
Abortion still drives some anti-abortion rights Democrats away from the health care bill. The dispute isn't just about abortion, it's also about what the bills actually say about abortion. Timothy Jost, law professor at Washington and Lee University, offers his insight. Read the article
3/11/2010 - Health Reform and Massive Resistance
In an article in Slate.com, Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost discusses what would happen if people just refused to buy health insurance even if a law ordered them to? Read the article
2/25/2010 - Health Care Summit: Any Areas of Agreement?
What is the outcome of the President's Health Care Summit? In two posts on the Health Affairs blog. Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost details some areas of agreement. Read the article
2/22/2010 - Most States Oppose Federal Insurance Mandate
In an NPR Morning Edition report on state efforts to block a federal health insurance requirement, Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost says that the U.S. Constitution is clear on the fact that states cannot nullify federal law. Read the article
2/10/2010 - Can the States Nullify Health Care Reform?
In an essay in the New England Journal of Medicine, Washington and Lee law professor and health law expert Tim Jost argues that it is constitutionally impossible for Virginia to pass legislation that trumps federal law. Read the article
1/22/2010 - Leading Health Care Experts Tell House To Pass Senate Health Care Bill
Talking Points Memo Reports on an effort by nearly four dozen of the nation's leading health care experts, including Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost, urging the House of Representatives to pass the Senate health care bill. Read the article
1/20/2010 - Pass the Bill Now
In this opinion piece in the New Republic, Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost argues that for the health reform movement to continue, the House must adopt and pass the Senate plan. Read the article
1/13/2010 - Proposals Clash on States' Role in Health Plans
Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost comments in a New York Times article examining the role the states should play in overseeing the overhaul of the health insurance market. Read the article
1/12/2010 - House, Senate View Health Exchanges Differently
Washington and Lee Law Professor Tim Jost appeared on NPR's Morning Edition to discuss how the House and Senate health reform legislation differ with regard to health exchanges. Read the article
1/8/2010 - Health Insurance Exchanges: House or Senate Style?
Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost participates in a panel discussion comparing how the Senate and House health reform plans deal with health insurance exchanges. Read the article
1/8/2010 - Law Professor Tim Jost to Discuss Health Insurance Exchanges Today on C-SPAN
Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost is scheduled to appear on C-SPAN today at 12:15 p.m. The panel will discuss health insurance exchanges and the differences between the House and Senate health reform legislation. Read the article
12/28/2009 - GOP State AGs' Objection To Health Bill Is Crazy Talk
Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost tells TPMMuckraker that constitutional challenges to the "Nebraska Compromise" in the new Senate health reform legislation are unlikely to be successful. Read the article
12/26/2009 - When Legislation Goes Into Overtime
In the New York Times Prescriptions blog, Washington and Lee Law Professor Tim Jost comments on comparisons between the Senate health reform legislation and the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act, which was signed into law in 1988 and repealed sixteen months later. Read the article
12/24/2009 - Legislators, scholars and the public unclear how Senate vote will affect health premiums
In an interview with The Dallas Morning News, Washington and Lee Law Professor Tim Jost says that the complexity of the Senate health care legislation is understandable given that it overhauls a complex system that involves on-sixth of the American economy. Read the article
12/24/2009 - Senate's health reform bill attempts cost savings
In an interview with The Plain Dealer, Washington and Lee Law Professor Tim Jost says that the Senate health legislation contains many projects that will improve the health insurance system over time. Read the article
12/22/2009 - Congress Tests the Cadillac Tax
In a special to Roll Call, Washington and Lee's Tim Jost and Case Western's Joseph White explore the punitive excise tax on "Cadillac" health insurance benefits in the Senate's health care legislation. Read the article
12/20/2009 - With bitter pills, Obama gets his health vote
Commenting in the Globe and Mail, Washington and Lee Law Professor Tim Jost argues that while not perfect, the Senate Health Care Reform bill will improve care and contain costs. Read the article
12/17/2009 - The Time Is Right to Do What's Right
In this opinion piece from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost argues that we have a once-in-a-generation chance to fix the health care system. Read the article
12/14/2009 - Health Care Reform Won't Do Much About Huge Hospital Bills
Commenting in a Huffington Post article, Washington and Lee Law Professor Tim Jost discusses what effect requiring hospitals to make public what they charge will have on reducing costs. Read the article
12/13/2009 - Report: in Senate plan, insufficient funding for those with preexisting conditions
In the Capital Briefing, the Washington Post blog offering news and analysis from the Hill, Washington and Lee Law Professor Tim Jost comments on how funding in the Senate HCR bill will be insufficient to prevent health insurers from using your health status against you. Read the article
12/13/2009 - Key Elements of Senate HCR Bill
The popular blog Daily Kos cites a series of posts by Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost in its exploration of the Senate Health Care Reform bill. Jost's posts can be found on the Health Affairs blog. Read the article
12/7/2009 - Senate Health Care Negotiations Careen from One Bad Idea to the Next
Washington and Lee Law Professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost is blogging in Politico.com's Arena, the site's daily debate with policymakers and decision shapers. Recent posts include comment on Senate negotiations regarding a public option and Obama's approval ratings. Read the article
11/30/2009 - Long Wait for Health Care Reforms
Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost comments in a Washington Post story examining how long it will take for health care reform initiatives to take effect, even if they are implemented soon. Read the article
11/9/2009 - Wider Oversight Looms for Insurers
Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost comments in an WSJ story about an effort by Democratic lawmakers to strip health insurers of their protection from certain federal antitrust laws. Read the article
11/8/2009 - Compromises get U.S. health bill through
Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost comments in a Globe and Mail story examining the compromises between lawmakers that facilitated the passage of the U.S. House health care reform bill. Read the article
10/31/2009 - Tim Jost on the House Health Reform Bill
Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost guest blogs at the Health Affairs website on the House Health Reform Bill, HR 3962. Read the article
10/28/2009 - Pulling a trigger on the public option
Research by Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost is cited in this Forbes column examining a trigger for a public health care plan. Read the article
10/28/2009 - Constitutionality of Health Overhaul Questioned
Washington and Lee law professor Timothy Stoltzfus Jost discusses the constitutionality of requiring individuals to purchase health care in the Washington Times. Read the article
10/22/2009 - Antitrust move poses few risks to health insurers
Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost comments in an AP story about an effort by Democratic lawmakers to strip health insurers of their protection from certain federal antitrust laws. Read the article
10/22/2009 - More for the Wish List
Washington and Lee Law Professor Tim Jost discusses the Finance Committe health reform bill on The New Republic blog, The Treatment, a must-read guide to health care reform. Read the article
10/5/2009 - Health Insurance Exchanges: Will They Work?
Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost comments in a New York Times article examining the viability of health insurance exchanges. Read the article
10/2/2009 - Senator Eyes Health Co-Ops for all 50 States
On NPR's Morning Edition, law professor and health care expert Tim Jost comments on the pros and cons off health insurance cooperatives, which are being pushed as a solution to the health care crisis by Senate Finance Committee member Kent Conrad. Listen to the podcast
9/28/2009 - In Some States, a Push to Ban Mandate on Insurance
As the debate over the constitutionality of a health insurance mandate continues, lawmakers in some states are pushing ahead with state constitutional amendments that would outlaw the requirement. Health care expert Tim Jost comments on the chances of these state amendments challenging federal law. Read the article
9/18/2009 - Health Care Abroad: Switzerland
In the New York Times blog "Prescriptions: Making Sense of the Health Care Debate," health care expert Tim Jost discusses his research on Swiss and Dutch health care systems. Read the blog interview
9/15/2009 - Health Insurance Co-ops
Health Care experts discuss the co-op option in this podcast from The Take Away Listen to the podcast
9/10/2009 - Experts Sound Off on Obama's Health Care Speech
Following President Obama's speech on health care reform Wednesday night, the ABC News Medical Unit solicited comments from some of the country's leading health care policy experts, including Prof. Tim Jost. Read the article
9/9/2009 - Triggernometry
At Slate.com, Prof. Jost comments on the idea of a legislative trigger for health care reform, a deadline for insurance companies to expand coverage and lower costs before Congress enacts a public option. Jost argues that these types of legislative tools have an poor history, especially when it comes to health care. Read the article
9/5/2009 - Wash. health co-op part of health reform debate
Group Health Cooperative was started in Washington state more than six decades ago. Now, the Seattle-based co-op that serves nearly 600,000 people in Washington state and Idaho is being mentioned as a potential model in the national health care reform debate. Read the article
9/2/2009 - An American Checks Up On German Health Care
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost writes a lot about health care systems in Europe, but this year the Washington and Lee University Law School professor had the unenviable opportunity of comparing the U.S. and German systems first-hand. Read the article
8/31/2009 - Ensuring Health-Care Reform is Legal
In this Letter to the Editor from the Washington Post, Prof. Jost takes issue with a claim from another editorial that some proposals for national health-care reform are unconstitutional. Read the letter
8/27/2009 - Reform of Private Insurance Not Enough
Prof. Jost participated in a conference call with reporters to discuss his new report "Private health insurance reformed: Better, but without public plan choice, not good enough,"which finds that private health insurance reform is not enough in itself to accomplish the major goals of health care reform, and why a public option is indispensable in controlling costs, promoting competition, and ensuring coverage for all. Read the report
8/25/2009 - NPR: Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane
After months of getting nowhere on a public option for health care reform, some lawmakers are suggesting that health insurance cooperatives may provide a solution to escalating health costs and improving care. Washington and Lee law professor Tim Jost joins Marty to explain how both health cooperatives and a public plan might work. Listen to the mp3
8/24/2009 - What's in it for you
In this opinion piece from the Roanoke Times, Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost argues that all Americans, even those with insurance, will benefit from health care reform. Read the article
8/21/2009 - Online Chat with Tim Jost at Politico.com
Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost participated in a web chat in Politico.com's Arena, the site's daily debate with policymakers and decision shapers. Read the article
8/21/2009 - No Health Care Middle Ground As Dems And GOP Scorn Co-ops from Investors.com
8/20/2009 - Health insurance debate turns to issue of co-ops from USA Today
8/20/2009 - Will Health Reform Get Its Own Overhaul? from SmartMoney.com
8/19/2009 - Health co-ops need same shields as public plan
A recent opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle cites research by Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost on the history and success of health cooperatives. Read the article
8/18/2009 - Are health care co-ops a better alternative to public option?
In this CNN report, Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost reacts to the idea of health care co-ops being pushed by Sen, Ken Conrad (D, North Dakota) and others as an alternative to a public plan. Read the article
8/18/2009 - 'Public Option' or Co-Op? Experts Sound Off
In this report from ABC News, Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost argues that past nonprofit co-ops could not, or would not, compete with private insurers. Read the article
8/17/2009 - Insurance Cooperatives Raise More Questions Than Answers
From Fox News: The White House, facing strong opposition to a government-run program as a vital part of health care reform, said it is open to accepting them as an alternative to a "public option." But health policy analysts like Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost say the idea adds little clarity to an already muddled debate. Read the article
8/17/2009 - So What's a Health Insurance Co-op, Anyway?
In this interview with the New York Times, Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost discusses nonprofit health co-ops, which have taken center stage in the health care reform debate after support for a public plan diminished. Read the article
8/14/2009 - The Truth Behind the Death Panel
With charges, countercharges, information, disinformation, flat-out lies, and half truths being disseminated on all sides of the health reform debates, how is a poor citizen to learn the real story? Washington and Lee Law professor Tim Jost helps out in the Columbia Journalism Review's Straight Talk column. Read the article
Washington and Lee law professor and health care system expert Tim Jost appeared on CNBC's Closing Bell on Tuesday to participate in a debate on public health care plans.
Read the article 7/6/2009 - Do Health Co-ops Offer Model for Overhaul?
Washington and Lee law professor and health care system expert Tim Jost comments in a New York Times article exploring the viability health insurance cooperatives.
Read the article 6/16/2009 - What Could Stop Obama on Health Care Reform
Washington and Lee Law Professor Tim Jost is participating in a discussion about health care reform in Politico.com's Arena, the site's daily debate with policymakers and decision shapers. Read the article
The Independent Payment Advisory Board
Episcopal Oversight: How the Bishops Conference Gets Health-Care Legislation Wrong
Jost Response to 5/20/10 USCCB letter
Response to United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Health Insurance Exchanges in Health Care Reform Legal and Policy Issues
Private Health Insurance Reform: Better, but – Without Public Insurance Option – Not Good EnoughPublic Plan or Cooperative: Does it Make a Difference?
Local Cooperatives Will Not Work for Rural America
State Run Programs are not a Viable Option for Creating a Public Plan
Trigger Happy: Don't Kill Public Plan Choice
Risk Selection by Private Health Insurers: Why Regulation Alone Cannot Solve the Problem