646.918.6159

Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management & Professor Emeritus of Political Science

Theodore Ted Marmor's scholarship primarily concerns welfare state politics and policy in North America and Western Europe. He particularly emphasizes the major spending programs, which is reflected in the second edition of The Politics of Medicare Aldine de Gruyter, 2000 and the book written with colleagues Mashaw and Harvey in the early l990s, America's Misunderstood Welfare State Basic Books, l992. The author or co-author of eleven books, Marmor has published over a hundred articles in a wide range of scholarly journals, as well as being a frequent op-ed contributor to U.S. and Canadian newspapers. Ted regularly writes op-ed essays for the Philadelphia Inquirer with long-time Yale law colleague, Jerry Mashaw.

A collection of his recent articles appeared in 2007: Fads Fallacies and Foolishness in Medical Management and Policy (World Scientific Publishing.) In 2005, the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis chose his jointly authored article “Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of Health Care,” with Richard Freeman and Kieke Okma, as its best article of the year. Yale University Press in 2009 published his co-edited book, Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care and in the summer of 2012 published Politics, Health and Health Care: Selected Essays, co-authored with Rudolf Klein.

Professor Marmor began his public career as a special assistant to Wilbur Cohen Secretary of HEW in the mid-1960s. He was associate dean of Minnesota's School of Public Affairs, a faculty member at the University of Chicago, the head of Yale's Center for Health Services, a member of President Carter's Commission on the National Agenda for the 1980s, and a senior social policy advisor to Walter Mondale in the Presidential campaign of 1984. He has testified before Congress about medical care reform, social security, and welfare issues, as well as being a consultant to government and non-profit agencies.

Marmor lectures frequently on health policy, management issues, and law to both management and law students. He has been an expert witness in cases ranging from the constitutionality of the Canada Health Act to asbestos disputes and drug pricing fraud.  He has also been a commentator on a variety of television and radio programs. His hobbies include wine, squash, and flyfishing.

Consultancies
States of Kentucky, Delaware, Texas, Illinois, and Vermont
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Congressional Committee on Ways and Means
Urban Institute
President's Commission on Income Maintenance
National Institute for Mental Health
Office of Equal Opportunity
The Ford Foundation
Attorney-General, Canada

Boards
Editorial Board, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 2000-present
International Advisory Board of The London School of Economics Health, 1996-present
Director, Robert Wood Johnson Health Policies Scholars Program, 1993-2003
Center for the Study of Drug Development, Tufts University, 1986-1998
National Academy for Social Insurance, 1986-1996
Editorial Board, Journal of Health, Politics, Policy and Law, 1976-present

Achievements and Awards
Fellow of the British Academy Foreign, 2009 - Present
Centennial Visiting Professor at The London School of Economics, 2001-2003
Robert Wood Johnson Investigator in Health Policy Award, 2001
Visiting Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1997
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 1998
Fellow, Institute of Medicine
Fellow, National Academy of Social Insurance
Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 1987-1995 Emeritus 1995-
Editor, Journal of Health, Politics, Policy and Law, 1980-1985

Presentations
"Wanting It All: The Challenge of US Health System Reform," Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Annual Economic Conference Keynote Address, June 2005.

Selected Books & Book Chapters
Politics, Health and Healthcare: Selected Essays, with R. Klein, Yale University Press, 2012

Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care, with R. Freeman and K. Okma, Yale University Press, 2009

Fads, Fallacies and Foolishness in Medical Care Management and Policy, World Scientific Publishing, 2007, 2009 paperback edition

"Reflections on Policy Analysis: Putting It Together Again" with R. Klein, in The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, 2005

Fads in Medical Care Management and Policy, Fads and Fashions in Medical Care Policy and Politics, Rock Carling Lecture, London, TSO for The Nuffield Trust, 2004

The Politics of Medicare, 2nd Edition, Transaction, 2000

Understanding Health Care Reform, Yale University Press, 1994

America's Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Enduring Realities with J. Mashaw and P. Harvey, Basic Books, Inc., 1992

Social Security: Beyond the Rhetoric of Crisis with J. Mashaw, Princeton University Press, 1988

The Career of John C. Calhoun: Politician, Social Critic, Political Philosopher, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988

Political Analysis and American Medical Care: Essays, Cambridge University Press, 1983

Selected Articles
"What the Heck Are Medicare Vouchers?  A Rundown on What They Do, How They're Meant to Help and Why They Probably Won't," Zocalo Public Square, September 25, 2012

"From HMOs to ACOs:  The Quest for the Holy Grail in U.S. Health Policy" (with J. Oberlander), Journal of General Internal Medicine, Vol. 27, No. 9, 1215-1216, 2012

"American Healthcare Policy in 2012:  An Undeniable Problem in Governance,"Governance:  An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions, Vol. 25, No. 3, 363-366, July, 2012

"A Dutch Model for Medicare Sobering Lessons from the Netherlands’ Experience with Competition" with K. Okma and J. Oberlander, New England Journal of Medicine, June, 2011

"The Health Bill Explained at Last" with J. Oberlander, The New York Review of Books, August 19, 2010

"Health Reform and the Obama Administration: Reflections in Mid-2010," Healthcare Policy, Vol 6, No.1, 2010

"Health Reform, American Style" with J. Oberlander, Social Science Medicine, 2010

"Health Reform 2010: The Missing Philosophical Premises in the Long-Running Health Care Debate," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol 36, No 3, 567, June, 2011

"Some Deficit Hawks are After Other Prey," The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 30, 2010

"Health Reform: The Fateful Moment"with J. Oberlander, The New York Review of Books, Vol. 56, No. 13, August 13, 2009

"The Obama Administration's Options for Health Care Cost Control: Hope vs. Reality" with J. Oberlander and J. White, Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 150, Issue 7, April 7, 2009

"The Brazilian National Health System: An Unfulfilled Promise" with C.O. Ocké-Reis, The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2009

Education
PhD Harvard University, 1966
Research Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford University, 1962
BA Harvard College, 1960