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The Biden administration should offer employers a Medicare-based public health insurance option for their employee coverage.
By Allison K. Hoffman On Monday, the Supreme Court decided another case that enhances ERISA’s deregulatory impact, Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton (holding that pension plans maintained by church-affiliated organizations, including hospitals, are exempt from ERISA’s…
By Allison K. Hoffman [cross-posted from RegBlog. see original here] It is still an open question—at least for a little while longer—what exactly the Republicans’ Affordable Care Act “repeal and replace” promise will entail. However,…
By Allison K. Hoffman In today’s NYTimes, Jill Horwitz and I have an Op-Ed describing why Donald Trump’s selection of Tom Price for secretary of health and human services is a particular threat to women’s health. Read it…
[Crossposted from RegBlog] By Allison Hoffman Zubik v. Burwell was this year’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) appearance on the Supreme Court stage. Consolidated with six other cases, Zubik challenged the ACA requirement that group health…
By Allison Hoffman The Affordable Care Act is sprawling. Some of its myriad provisions may (or may not!) reduce healthcare costs. Think of accountable care organizations, the hospital readmission reduction program, or even the preventive…
By Allison Hoffman[Cross-posted from Health Affairs Blog] The 50th Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid offers an opportunity to reflect on how U.S. social policy has conceived of the problem of long-term care. Social insurance programs aim…
By Allison K. Hoffman In the U.S., the right to health is often held up as a utopian legal principle that other countries manage to embrace and that we shortsightedly spurn. What I learned working…
Bill of Health is pleased to welcome Allison Hoffman as an Occasional Contributor! Allison Hoffman is Assistant Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. Her work focuses on health care law and policy. She…
By Allison Hoffman The Obama administration announced last week that the federally-run small-employer health insurance exchanges (or “SHOP” exchanges) will be delayed for a year, until November 2014. This announcement, like others regarding delays in…
