Bradley Herring
Bradley Herring is associate chair for academic programs, director of the PhD concentration in health economics and policy, and an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has served on the president’s Council of Economic Advisers and currently serves as chair of the Board of Directors for the Maryland Health Insurance Plan.
Publications & Appearances
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Research Papers Research Papers
Reforming Government Subsidies to Private Health Insurance
Health benefits received from an employer are not currently treated as taxable income by the US government. As a result
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Explaining the Growth in US Health Care Spending Using State-Level Variation in Income, Insurance, and Provider Market Dynamics
At least 70 percent of the recent slowdown in healthcare spending can likely be explained by long-standing patterns in healthcare spending related to changes in income, insurance, and provider market characteristics.
- | The Pre-existing Condition: Innovative Solutions to America’s Thorniest Healthcare Challenge The Pre-existing Condition: Innovative Solutions to America’s Thorniest Healthcare Challenge
- | Books Books
The Pre-existing Condition: Guaranteed Renewability and Equitable Tax Treatment
Guaranteed-renewable insurance allows those with chronic health conditions to pay a pooled premium that is the same as that paid by those without chronic health conditions, but as a result of a voluntary decision to pool together rather than a regulatory requirement to do so.