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Older Persons’ Human Rights
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18
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From The Harvard Gazette: Time for mandatory retirement ages for lawmakers, judges, presidents?
Americans seem to mostly say yes; legal, medical scholars point to complexities of setting limits at the Petrie-Flom lunchtime event, How Old is Too Old to Govern?
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Event Recap: How Old Is Too Old to Govern?
“People around the world are living longer, including our elected officials and judges,” remarked Petrie-Flom Center Executive Director Susannah Baruch as she opened the Center’s recent event, “How Old Is Too Old to Govern?”
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Ground Ambulances: The Last Gap in the No Surprises Act
Katie Moraida was just feet from the hospital when her baby decided it was time. Sitting in the front seat of her car, she gave birth as her husband pulled over in a panic.
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Small Provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Reveals the GOP’s Next Health Care Target
Health policy experts, patient advocates, and the news media have understandably focused on the One Big Beautiful Bill’s threat to Medicaid. The budget reconciliation law, passed with slim GOP majorities and exclusive Democratic opposition in July, included numerous reforms to Medicaid eligibility that will likely reduce the number of Medicaid beneficiaries by more than 10 million and decrease federal Medicaid spending by more…
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Case v. Montana and Police Responses to Mental Health Calls
On Sept. 27, 2021, Army veteran William Case became one of many Americans shot by police while experiencing a mental health crisis.
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With Hepatitis C, We Are Only as Healthy as Our Jails
In stark relief to countless Executive Branch assaults on American public health infrastructure and the passage of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” against medical guidance earlier this year, recent governmental actions to address Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) — the country’s most common and most deadly bloodborne infection — appear refreshingly informed by scientific consensus.
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Fireside Chat: I. Glenn Cohen and Rochelle Walensky
Professor Glenn Cohen, Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School interviews Dr. Rochelle Walensky, 19th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Senior Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center. They discuss Dr. Walensky’s career as an infectious disease clinician focused on HIV/AIDS, her experience leading the CDC during COVID-19, and her reflections on public health infrastructure in the United States and internationally.
