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The 2025 budget reconciliation bill (“HR1” or “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) significantly amended Medicaid, the federal public health insurance program for low-income people. HR1 has garnered significant attention surrounding new rules like work reporting requirements that…
Both vulnerability theory and health justice conceive of the relationship between law and behavior as holistic and constructive.
The fiscal fragility of the Indian Health Service creates real problems for Native peoples.
Revocations through the administrative process could undermine the stability of all waivers, but revocations through the CRA would not.
Commenters so far have raised various issues, including concerns about how the waiver would, if granted, impact access to treatment for mental illness.
By Matthew J.B. Lawrence Research indicates that one of many challenges in addressing the opioid epidemic is getting people who are theoretically eligible for government-funded drug abuse treatment through CHIP or Medicaid to actually make use…
By Matthew Lawrence Readers will have followed my various blog posts on the subject, but I’ve just posted a revised version of my law review article addressing Medicare’s appeals backlog to SSRN. I’ve pasted the…
By Matthew Lawrence Some of the behavioral changes that the Affordable Care Act seeks to bring about are prompted directly by the Act or a federal agency acting pursuant to the Act. The “individual mandate”…
This new post by the Petrie-Flom Center’s Academic Fellow Matthew J. B. Lawrence appears on the Health Affairs Blog, as part of a series stemming from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School…
