Gerald F. Kominski, Ph.D., is a professor of health policy and management, and senior fellow and former director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He is also professor of public policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
Kominski’s current research focuses primarily on evaluating the effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Throughout his career, he has focused more generally on evaluating the cost and policy impacts of health care reforms, with a special emphasis on public insurance programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, and Workers’ Compensation.
Kominski joined the UCLA faculty in 1989, after spending over three years at the Congressional agency responsible for monitoring Medicare hospital payment policies, now known as the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).
He received his Ph.D. in public policy analysis from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1985, and his A.B. in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1978. He is editor and co-author of the best-selling textbook, Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management, which was published in its 4th edition in 2014.
- Gerald F. Kominski - Medicare for All: Is It the Best Pathway to Universal Coverage ( Download)
- Medicare for All: Is It Finally Time for Single Payer in the United States ( Download)
- Dr. Gerald Kominski Conference C3Med 2016 ( Download)
- This can happen in Thailand ( Download)
- MidPoint | Gerald F. Kominski, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Health Services ( Download)
- Politics In Your Eyes | Health Policy | Daily Bruin ( Download)
- 2018 UCLA FSPH Paul Torrens Health Forum | The Midterm Elections | Gerald Kominski ( Download)
- 2014 Lester Breslow Distinguished Lecture - Dean's Distinguished Scholar Dr. Gerald Kominski ( Download)
- Paul Torrens Health Forum: A Tribute to Jerry Kominski-Healthcare Reform in California & the Nation ( Download)
- GHEcon2020 Financing Medicare for All - Gabriel Zucman ( Download)
- Robert Ross & Gerald Kominski discuss health reform in California and beyond ( Download)
- Narrow Networks: Do We Know When Networks Have Become Too Narrow ( Download)
- New Directions in Health Care (1/4) ( Download)
- Medicare For All is a ridiculous fantasy ( Download)
- Continuing the Conversation - The Supreme Court Ruling on Health Care Reform: What's Next ( Download)
