On 22 October 2015, LSE Health and Social Care and the LSE's Departmemt of Social Policy hosted a special event to mark the 10th anniversary of the Cambridge journal, Health Economics, Policy and Law (HEPL).
Several of HEPL's editorial board members delivered short presentations at the event, reflecting on issues that they thought posed particular challenges to the development of health care systems over the next decade. These have been posted as blogs:
Challenges posed by French health care reform - Dr Isabelle Durand-Zaleski (University of Paris XII)
The future of Obamacare - Professor Scott L Greer (University of Michigan)
The future of the Affordable Care Act - Professor Thomas Rice (UCLA Fielding School of Public Health)
The appropriate limits placed upon what people can expect from health care - Dr Jan-Kees Helderman (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Migration in health care - Professor Tamara Hervey (University of Sheffield)
The proper role of public versus private health care financing - Professor Mark Stabile (University of Toronto)
Health policy ideas fasionable in the Nordic countries - Professor Karsten Vrangbaek (University of Copenhagen)
Are health care resources in the developed country context really scarce? - Professor Albert Weale (University College London).
HEPL special issue
Alongside the event, a series of commentaries were commissioned from HEPL's International Advisory Board which featured in a special issue of the journal published in October. These reflected on an article that had appeared in HEPL since its founding. View the issue here.