Bio
Benjamin Ukert is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health at Texas A&M University. He is a health economist who is an expert on the economics of health insurance, provider behavior, and healthcare policy. Much of his research focuses on the commercially insured population, and he has done extensive research on the link between health and the demand for health insurance, the interaction between provider behavior and healthcare use, state policy, and provider interventions.