Health Policy Scholar

Christopher Conover

3 articles 2013–2014

Christopher Conover is a health policy scholar and researcher at Duke University's Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research. He contributed to The Weekly Standard during 2013–2014, writing critically about the Affordable Care Act's implementation and broader health reform issues.

An Obamacare Report Card

February 17, 2014 · Features, Obamacare, Christopher J. Conover

Perhaps the most unpleasant aspect of my otherwise quite enjoyable job as a college professor has been the requirement to assign grades to students. Given that we’re now about halfway through implementation of the Affordable Care Act—which even President Obama is happy to call “Obamacare”—it seems…

Health Reform Breaks Bad

October 21, 2013 · Features, Obamacare, Christopher J. Conover

Breaking Bad is the story of a seemingly well-intended but very misguided man who turned to cooking meth in order to amass enough wealth to provide for his family once he dies of cancer. The consequences of that unfortunate decision—not to mention the lies and deceptions to keep it on track—pyramid…

The Dishonor System

August 5, 2013 · Features, Obamacare, AEI

Let me stipulate that I do not condone fraud in any form. Moreover, I assume all Weekly Standard readers are law-abiding citizens who would neither commit fraud themselves nor encourage others to do so. My purpose is to inform such readers just how tempting fraud on the Obamacare health insurance…