Scott E. Harrington, Ph.D.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith. Ronald Reagan

Affiliations, research, teaching

Alan B. Miller Professor
Health Care Management and Insurance and Risk Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

Research Fellow, Wharton Risk Mgmt. & Decision Processes Center

Adjunct Scholar: American Enterprise Institute

Co-Editor, Journal of Risk and Insurance

Associate Editor, Geneva Risk and Insurance Review

Research Interests: Health care economics and finance; risk management and insurance; financial regulation and capital requirements

Recent Expert Service: Securities litigation; Auditor liability for insurer bankruptcy; Contingent commissions; Health insurance rescission; Non-product asbestos claims; Liability insurers’ rights and obligations in asbestos-related bankruptcies; Insurance credit scoring practice

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Recent

Op-Eds

Demonizing the Insurance Industry is Not the Answer, with John Lott, Fox Forum, March 19, 2010.
Raising Costs Isn't Health Care Reform, Washington Examiner, Dec. 23, 2009.
The Real Consequences of Health Insurance Overhaul, The American, Dec. 22, 2009.
Congress's Long-Term Care Bomb, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 13, 2009.
Competition and Health Insurance, Wall Street Journal, Nov. 6, 2009.
The Adverse Selection Problem, Medical Progress Today, Oct. 30, 2009.
The AARP Paradox, The American, Oct. 2, 2009.
Fact-checking the President on Health Insurance, Wall Street Journal, Sept. 14, 2009.
Health Co-ops: Slow Road to Government Care, Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2009.
What the States’ Experience with Mandates Should Tell Us about Universal Healthcare Coverage, The American, August 11, 2009.
Reform Needs Healthy Life Incentives, Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2009.
The Public Plan Would Be the Only Plan, Wall Street Journal, June 15, 2009.
Moral Hazard and the Meltdown , Wall Street Journal, May 23, 2009.

Selected Papers and Presentations

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