Fein, Rashi

Dr. Rashi Fein (born 1926), BA, 1948, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore; MA, 1976, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Ph.D, 1956, The John Hopkins University; DLitt (Honorary), 1996, State University of New York, is a Professor of the Economics of Medicine, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Fein served as Professor of the Economics of Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, from 1968 to 1999, was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. from 1963 to 1968, and a Senior Staff member of President John F. Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisors from 1961 to 1963. Fein is an economist with research interests in public policy issues related to health care and universal health coverage in the United States. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including: Economics of Mental Illness (1958); A Right to Health: The Problem of Access to Primary Medical Care (with Charles Lewis and David Mechanic, 1976); Medical Care, Medical Costs: The Search for a Health Insurance Policy (1986, 1989); and The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and What It Will Take To Get Out (with Julius B. Richmond, 2005).