Professor Amy Monahan Tapped To Serve on The Commonwealth Fund’s National Task Force on the Future Role of Employers in the U.S. Health System
Professor Amy Monahan has been named to The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on the Future Role of Employers in the U.S. Health System.
The Commonwealth Fund announced the creation of a national task force to examine the changes needed to improve employees’ access to timely, affordable healthcare coverage. Half the U.S. population — 157 million people — rely on employer-sponsored health insurance. The task force aims to build consensus on market incentives and regulatory changes needed to enhance health coverage in the workplace, ensure access to affordable health care, and improve population health and care delivery.
This yearlong task force of thought leaders and other experts in employer coverage will examine:
• The top challenges facing employers and their covered employees
• The role that employers should play in the U.S. healthcare system
• What employers will need to do to be successful in that role
“I am thrilled to be a part of this task force, which brings together a nonpartisan and interdisciplinary group to address the challenges of one of the most important pieces of the U.S. healthcare system,” says Professor Amy Monahan, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, and the Melvin Steen & Corporate Donors Professor. “Being able to put my academic research to work in addressing real-world problems is one of the most fulfilling aspects of my role at Minnesota Law.”
The Task Force will be chaired by Peter Lee, J.D., senior scholar with the Clinical Excellence Research Center at Stanford University, and Sherry Glied, Ph.D., dean of the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University. It will be staffed by the Commonwealth Fund’s Sara Collins, Ph.D., and Lovisa Gustafsson, M.B.A.”
Professor Monhan teaches and writes in the areas of federal taxation and employee benefits law. In 2013, she was awarded the American Law Institute's Young Scholars Medal in recognition of her work on public pensions and healthcare reform, and its potential to influence improvements in the law.
“Amy Monahan is a perfect example of the way Minnesota Law faculty use their expertise to guide policy and practice,” says Minnesota Law Interim Dean William McGeveran, Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett Professor of Law. “Her deep knowledge of health plan regulation will be invaluable to this eminent task force as it develops a blueprint for employer health coverage, which is one of the thorniest issues in American insurance. For her entire career, she has actively leveraged her scholarship to solve tough policy problems.”
