Allison K. Hoffman

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Professor of Law

3501 Sansom Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104

United States

https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/ahoffma1/

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1.

Retiree Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending: A Study of Consumer Expectations and Policy Implications

American Journal of Law and Medicine, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2013, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 13-04, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 13-14
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 11 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2013
Allison K. Hoffman and Howell E. Jackson
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Harvard Law School
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health law, health policy, Medicare, out-of-pocket costs, financial literacy, Medicare reform, health insurance

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Three Models of Health Insurance: The Conceptual Pluralism of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 159, 2011, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 11-19
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 27 May 2011 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2011
Allison K. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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health, health law, health reform, insurance law, health insurance, risk regulation, PPACA

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The Need for a Reduced Workweek in the United States

PRECARIOUS WORK, WOMEN, AND THE NEW ECONOMY: THE CHALLENGE TO LEGAL NORMS, Judith Fudge and Rosemary Owen, eds., Hart Publishing, 2006, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 91
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Nov 2004 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2007
Vicki Schultz and Allison K. Hoffman
Yale Law School and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Oil and Water: Mixing Individual Mandates, Fragmented Markets, and Health Reform

American Journal of Law and Medicine, Vol. 36, No. 1, p. 7, 2010, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-54
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 01 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 26 May 2011
Allison K. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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health reform, individual mandate, Massachusetts

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Reimagining the Risk of Long-Term Care

Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2016, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-48
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 25 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2016
Allison K. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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long-term care, health law, health policy, health reform, Medicaid, risk, insurance, informal caregiver, caregiver, social welfare

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Health Care Spending and Financial Security after the Affordable Care Act

North Carolina Law Review, Forthcoming, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 14-08
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2014
Allison K. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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health care, health insurance, health reform, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, PPACA, ACA, Obamacare, Financial Security

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Health Care's Market Bureaucracy

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 66, p. 1926, 2019, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-28
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 12 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2020
Allison K. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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health, health care, consumer, patient, market, economics, democracy

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Health Law and Ethics

HEALTH SYSTEMS SCIENCE, Susan E. Skochelak et al., eds., 2nd edn, Elsevier, 2021, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-27, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 21-03, Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22-67
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 17 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2023
William M. Sage, I. Glenn Cohen and Allison K. Hoffman
Texas A&M University School of Law, Harvard Law School and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Law & ethics, health care systems, fiduciary duty, conflict of interest, professional self-regulation, market competition, fraud, abuse, privacy, confidentiality, health insurance, informed consent to treatment, medical malpractice & redressing error, withholding & withdrawing care

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A Public Option for Employer Health Plans

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 21-12, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 21-19
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 23 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2021
Allison K. Hoffman, Howell E. Jackson and Amy Monahan
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Harvard Law School and University of Minnesota Law School
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health reform, employer-provided health insurance, public option, Medicare for All

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A Vision of an Emerging Right to Health Care in the U.S.: Expanding Health Care Equity through Legislative Reform

In The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide: A Global Comparative Study (Aeyal Gross and Colleen Flood, eds., Cambridge University Press), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 Sep 2012
Allison K. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Health Care, Right to Health, Human Rights, PPACA, Health Reform, Health Insurance, Obamacare

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The Reverberating Risk of Long-Term Care

Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2015
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 22 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2015
Allison K. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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long-term care, health, health care, Medicare, Medicaid

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From the Technical to the Personal: Teaching and Learning Health Insurance Regulation and Reform

St. Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 61, No. 3, 2017, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-19, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-36
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2017
Allison K. Hoffman, Whitney Brown and Lindsay Cutler
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), School of Law, Students and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), School of Law, Students
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Health Insurance, Health Reform, Legal Teaching, Health Law, Health Policy, ERISA

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An Optimist's Take on the Decline of Small-Employer Health Insurance

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 98, p. 113, 2013, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 13-39
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2013
Allison K. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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PPACA, ACA, Obamacare, health insurance, health reform, small-employer health insurance

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Long-Term Care Policy after Covid-19 — Solving the Nursing Home Crisis

New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 383, Pp. 903-05, Sept. 3, 2020, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-36
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 17 Sep 2020
Rachel M. Werner, Allison K. Hoffman and Norma Coe
University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine
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Health care policy, nursing homes, long-term care, COVID-19 deaths, Medicaid, Medicare, home healthcare, risk of closures, comprehensive funding, social insurance program, long term services & supports, caregiver, reform

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How Medicalization of Civil Rights Could Disappoint

Stanford Law Review Online, Vol. 72, p. 165, 2020, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-28
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 27 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2020
Allison K. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Civil rights law, discrimination, inequality, health policy, health law, conceptual & rhetorical framing, medicalization, Craig Konnoth, individual vs. structural remedies, harm, equal protection, policy feedback

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The ACA’s Choice Problem

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 45, P. 501, 2020., U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-29
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Sep 2020
Allison K. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Health care policy, Affordable Care Act, ACA, choice of health plan, managed competition, health insurance, market bureaucracy, sociological problem with choice of plan, health reform, 2020 elections

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The Irony of Health Care’s Public Option

in Politics, Policy, and Public Options (Ganesh Sitaraman & Anne Alstott eds., Cambridge 2021), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-34
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 15 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2021
Allison K. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Law & society, health economics & policy, social insurance, public provision, universal coverage, Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, PPACA, Obamacare, market bureaucracy, competition, regulation, insurance choice

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The American Pathology of Inequitable Access to Medical Care

In OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE HEALTH LAW (David Orentlicher & Tamara Hervey, eds. 2020)., U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-33
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 11 Sep 2020
Allison K. Hoffman and Mark A. Hall
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Wake Forest University - School of Law
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Medical care, health care finance, U.S. comparative medical spending, unequal access, poor, racial minority, access for the uninsured, fragmented system of finance, Medicare, Medicaid, public & private insurance, Affordable Care Act, ACA challenges, duties to treat patients, access to emergency care

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How a Pandemic Plus Recession Foretell the Post-Job-Based Horizon of Health Insurance

DePaul Law Review, Vol. 71, 2022
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 Jun 2022
Allison K. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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health insurance, health reform, ERISA, employee benefits, health care, employer

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Understanding and Improving Financial Literacy With Respect to Healthcare Expenditures in Retirement

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 17 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2020
Allison K. Hoffman and Howell E. Jackson
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Harvard Law School
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Cost-Sharing Reductions, Technocrat Tinkering, and Market-Based Health Policy

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, vol. 46, p. 873, 2018, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-26
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 13 Aug 2020
Allison K. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Health law & policy, insurance regulation, Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, PPACA, ACA, insurance exchanges, Obamacare, cost-sharing reduction payments, CSRs, premium subsidies, market-based reform, bureaucracy

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Ethical and Regulatory Issues for Embedded Pragmatic Trials Involving People Living with Dementia

Journal of the American Geriatric Society, vol. 68, p. S37-S42, 2020
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 03 Sep 2020
Emily Largent, Spencer Phillips Hey, Kristin Harkins, Allison K. Hoffman, Steven Joffe, Julie Lima, Alex John London and Jason Karlawish
University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine, Harvard University - Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine, Brown University - School of Public Health, Carnegie Mellon University - Philosophy Department and University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
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Medical research design, bioethics, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, informed consent, human subjects

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The Ethics of Medicaid’s Work Requirements and Other Personal Responsibility Policies

JAMA Viewpoint, May 7, 2018
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 03 Sep 2020
Harald Schmidt and Allison K. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Health law & policy, social insurance, Medicaid, eligibility, work requirements, Section 1115 demonstration projects, waivers, health risks, assessment, transparency

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Discrimination Risks of Alzheimer’s as Support for Social Insurance for Long-Term Care

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Vol. 46, p. 499, 2018
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 09 Sep 2020
Allison K. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Law & society, health economics & policy, CLASS Act, private insurance markets, social insurance, long-term care, Alzheimer’s, dementia, next-friend risk, informal caregivers

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What Health Reform Reveals About Health Law

The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law (Glenn Cohen, Allison K. Hoffman, and William M. Sage, eds.) 2017, Forthcoming, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-32
Posted: 19 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2016
Allison K. Hoffman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

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Affordable Care Act, health law, healthcare, healthcare financing, insurance, social insurance, Medicaid, health reform, federalism, professionalism