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Nicole Huberfeld

  • Medicare/Medicaid

    Why It Matters: HR1’s Change to Medicaid Waiver Budget Neutrality Rules

    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…

    Why It Matters: HR1’s Change to Medicaid Waiver Budget Neutrality Rules

  • Blog Symposia

    The End of Public Health? It’s Not Dead Yet

    Older federal health laws are on a downward spiral to address modern health problems, but the spiraling can reversed — if Congress acts.

    The End of Public Health? It’s Not Dead Yet

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  • Health Care Finance

    This Week’s Edition of ACA Challenges

    By Nicole Huberfeld Earlier this week, Jonathan Adler wrote in the National Review Online that challenges to the individual mandate were just beginning. And today, Oklahoma’s September challenge to the ACA is making headlines.  As…

    This Week’s Edition of ACA Challenges

  • Health Law Policy

    The DOMA Petition You Should Be Following

    By Nicole Huberfeld You may be thinking “DOMA? Hello, this is HEALTH LAW.”  Please stick with me for a moment.  The Supreme Court appears to be collecting petitions for certiorari regarding the Defense of Marriage…

    The DOMA Petition You Should Be Following

  • Blog Symposia

    New “What Ifs”: Election Questions; Ongoing ACA Litigation

    By Nicole Huberfeld Two vaguely related thoughts on the future of the ACA. First, when I present my co-authored Medicaid post-mortem paper forthcoming in B.U. L. Rev., I find I am frequently asked “what could…

    New “What Ifs”: Election Questions; Ongoing ACA Litigation

  • Health Care Reform

    ACA Litigation – Oklahoma’s “Federalism Unit” Piles On

    By Nicole Huberfeld We Who Follow ACA Litigation will continue to be in business.  [On September 19], Oklahoma’s Attorney General sought leave to amend the state’s original complaint regarding the individual mandate.  Now the state…

    ACA Litigation – Oklahoma’s “Federalism Unit” Piles On

  • Health Care Reform

    Uninsured Drop, But the Challenges Continue

    By Nicole Huberfeld The Pacific Legal Foundation seems unable to face its defeat before the Court in June.  The PLF has filed a motion seeking leave to amend a complaint on behalf of a small…

    Uninsured Drop, But the Challenges Continue