Timothy Jost

Timothy Jost, JD (b. 1948) is currently Professor Emeritus at Washington and Lee University School of Law (since 6/2015).^[1] Previously he held the Robert L. Willett Family Professorship of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law(2000-2015). Prior to coming to Washington and Lee he taught for 20 years at the Ohio State University. He is a co-author of a casebook, Health Law, now in its 8th edition, used widely throughout the United States in teaching health law. He has authored several other books and over 150 articles monographs, book reviews, and book chapters on health law and health reform topics. He has been widely quoted as one of the nation's top experts on health law and policy by the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, AP, NPR, CNN, and other national, regional, and trade media. He has spoken on comparative health law and policy topics on every continent except Antarctica and had Fulbright grants in Germany and the U.K. to study health policy. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. From 2008 to 2017 he published over 600 blog posts at Health Affairs following the enactment and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Don Berwick, former head of the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, said of Tim, “Tim Jost is to American health care policy what a GPS is to a dark and unfamiliar road; what Carl Sagan was to astronomy; what Barbara Tuchman was to history. He makes the potentially inaccessible accessible.”1 He is married to Ruth Stoltzfus Jost, and has three sons and four grandchildren.

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