Tom Baker
William Maul Measey Professor of Law and Health Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Chapter Member: New Jersey-Philadelphia SSN
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About Tom
Baker is a scholar of insurance law who explores insurance; risk; and responsibility using methods and perspectives drawn from economics; sociology; psychology; and history. His research on health insurance exchanges is informing the development of decision tools to improve consumer choice. Baker is the Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law; Liability Insurance and the co-director of the Health Insurance Exchange Research Group of Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. In August 2013 he received the Robert B. McKay award; a lifetime scholarly achievement award given by the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association.
Contributions
How the States Can Save the ObamaCare Exchanges
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In the News
Quoted by Alex Gangitano in "COVID-19 Waivers Emerge as Flashpoint in Absence of Liability Shield," The Hill, June 18, 2020.
Research discussed by , in "Insurers Could End Football. It Won't be the First Industry They've Transformed.," Pacific Standard, January 28, 2019.
Quoted by Bobby Allyn in "3D Printing Companies Take Action Against 3D Guns Amid Debatable Public Safety Threat," WHYY, August 14, 2018.
Opinion: "4 Ways States Can Prevent the Affordable Care Act from ‘Exploding’," Tom Baker (with ), Vox, April 5, 2017.