Speaker biographies

Alain C. Enthoven is the Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, at Stanford University, and a core faculty member at the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research. Known as the “father of managed competition,” he was one of the founders of the Jackson Hole Group, a national think tank on health-care policy. His research focuses on the financing and delivery of health care in the United States and other industrialized nations and cost-benefit analysis in medical care. In his numerous publications he has advocated a financially integrated health-care delivery system that relies on market-based incentives to reduce medical costs and increase economic accountability and quality of care. He is currently working on a proposal for a “Market-based Universal Health Insurance System” being developed for the Committee for Economic Development.

Clark C. Havighurst is known as a leading and innovative proponent of policies that would rely less on government or the medical profession and more on competition and consumer choice to guide the health-care industry’s development. He has taught courses in health-care law and policy, antitrust law, and economic regulation at the Duke University School of Law since 1964. Mr. Havighurst is a member of the Institute of Medicine and of the National Academy of Sciences. His scholarly writings include articles on most phases of regulation in the health services industry; the role of competition in the financing and delivery of health care; medical malpractice; private contracts as vehicles for reforming American health care; a wide range of antitrust issues arising in the health care field; and antitrust and other issues surrounding private standard-setting, accrediting, etc. in health care and other fields. His law school casebook, Health Care Law and Policy: Readings, Notes, and Questions, was published by Foundation Press in 1988; a new edition, with two co-editors, was published in the summer of 1998. In 1982 he published a major study of economic regulation in health care, Deregulating the Health Care Industry. A later book, Health Care Choices: Private Contracts as Instruments of Health Reform, was published in 1995 by the AEI Press.

David A. Hyman, M.D., is a professor of law and medicine at the University of Illinois. He is the Galowich-Huizenga Faculty Scholar and director of the Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy. He teaches or has taught health-care regulation, civil procedure, insurance law, law and economics, professional responsibility, and tax policy. He focuses his research and writing on the regulation and financing of health care. While serving as special counsel to the Federal Trade Commission, Dr. Hyman was the principal author and project leader for the first joint report ever issued by the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, “Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition” (2004). Dr. Hyman is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas and George Washington University Schools of Law, and a professor at the University of Maryland School of Law.
 
Thomas P. Miller, a former senior health economist for the Joint Economic Committee, studies health-care policy and regulation at AEI. A lawyer by training and a former journalist, Miller has worked on issues ranging from Medicare prescription drug benefits to medical savings accounts. While at the committee, he worked on Social Security reform legislation and organized a number of hearings that focused on reforms in private health-care markets. He previously was the director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute for three years, where he focused the program on restoring individual choice, control, and responsibility to the U.S. health-care system. Miller also spent fourteen years at the Competitive Enterprise Institute as director of economic policy studies and as a senior policy analyst for issues involving health-care regulation, entitlement reform, insurance regulation, banking, antitrust, fiscal policy, and privacy.

Barak D. Richman is an associate professor of law at Duke University School of Law. Mr. Richman’s research interests include the economics of contracting, new institutional economics, antitrust, and health-care policy. He teaches contracts, antitrust, and health law, and he has guest taught classes at the Fuqua School of Business and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. He was invited to the Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum in 2004, received the Duke Law School's Blueprint Award in 2005, and was a recipient of the Provost’s Common Fund award in 2006. His recent work has been published in the Columbia Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Law and Social Inquiry.

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