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  • Affordable Care Act

    Affordable Care, the Supreme Court, and the Wisdom of Crowds

    By David Orentlicher [cross-posted at HealthLawProfs blog and orentlicher.tumblr.com] How will the Supreme Court rule on the challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies that help millions of lower- and middle-income Americans afford their health care coverage? According…

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  • Bioethics

    Frozen Embryo Disputes and Unwanted Parenthood

    By David Orentlicher [cross-posted at HealthLawProfs blog and orentlicher.tumblr.com] For the second time, a state court of appeals has given a woman permission to use frozen embryos over the objections of her former partner who supplied the…

    Frozen Embryo Disputes and Unwanted Parenthood

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  • Affordable Care Act

    Replacing the Affordable Care Act?

    By David Orentlicher [cross-posted at HealthLawProfs blog] With the future of the Affordable Care Act in doubt after last week’s hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, Republican lawmakers are busily preparing back-up legislation. New options should…

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    Health Care Policy by Common Sense?

    By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at HealthLawProfs] In announcing the federal government’s approval of Indiana’s Medicaid expansion, Governor Mike Pence invoked common sense in defending his insistence that beneficiaries shoulder a share of their health care…

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  • Affordable Care Act

    Cost Containment and Cost Shifting

    By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at Health Law Profs.] With Harvard professors protesting their increased responsibility for health care costs, we are seeing just the most visible aspect of the recurring cycle described in “Tragic Choices.” As Guido Calabresi…

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  • David Orentlicher

    Health and Wealth

    By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at Health Law Profs blog] A number of studies have suggested that education, wealth, and other socioeconomic factors are more important than health care in promoting a person’s health. Earlier this…

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  • Bioethics

    Sloppy Thinking about Genetic Therapy

    By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at Health Law Profs blog] As NPR reported this morning, researchers in England may soon use genetic therapy to treat diseases that result from defects in mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondria create energy…

    Sloppy Thinking about Genetic Therapy

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  • David Orentlicher

    Ebola: A Problem of Poverty Rather than Health

    By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at Health Law Profs and PrawfsBlawg.] Undoubtedly, the death toll in West Africa would be much lower if Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone had better health care systems or if an Ebola vaccine had…

    Ebola: A Problem of Poverty Rather than Health

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    The Ebola “Czar”

    By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at Health Law Profs and PrawfsBlawg.] In the wake of Craig Spencer’s decision to go bowling in Brooklyn, governors of three major states—Illinois, New Jersey, and New York—have imposed new Ebola quarantine rules that…

    The Ebola “Czar”

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  • Bioethics

    Egg Freezing and Women’s Decision Making

    By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at Health Law Profs and PrawfsBlawg.] The announcement by Apple and Facebook that they will cover the costs of egg freezing predictably provoked some controversy—predictably because it involves reproduction and also…

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