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  • Read more: Upcoming Event: 11/01/12 Obamacare on Trial – Book talk and panel discussion with Einer Elhauge
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    Upcoming Event: 11/01/12 Obamacare on Trial – Book talk and panel discussion with Einer Elhauge

    Obamacare on Trial Book talk and panel discussion by Einer Elhauge, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (and founding director of the Petrie-Flom Center) Panelists: I. Glenn Cohen, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School Abigail Moncrieff, Boston University School of Law (and former PFC fellow) Sanford Levinson, University of…

  • Read more: Florida’s Constitutional Amendment on Healthcare: Why It Still Matters after the Supreme Court’s Healthcare Decision
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    Florida’s Constitutional Amendment on Healthcare: Why It Still Matters after the Supreme Court’s Healthcare Decision

    By Katie Booth This November, Floridians will vote on whether to amend the Florida constitution “to prohibit laws or rules from compelling any person or employer to purchase, obtain, or otherwise provide for health care coverage.” Similar constitutional amendments are on the ballot in Alabama and Wyoming and have already been adopted in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Ohio.…

  • Read more: Reality Check, Please!
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    Reality Check, Please!

    By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. By now, many people have seen a still photo or video footage of Rep. Paul Broun (R-Georgia), standing in front of a wall full of deer heads, proclaiming that evolution, embryology, and the Big Bang theory are “lies straight from the pit of hell.”  According to the Congressman, “it’s lies…

  • Read more: JAMA Forum: Reproductive Freedom and the 2012 Presidential Election
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    JAMA Forum: Reproductive Freedom and the 2012 Presidential Election

    By The Petrie-Flom Center Glenn Cohen and his co-author, Eli Adashi, have a new blog post out at the JAMA Forum on reproductive freedom and the presidential election: It is commonly assumed that the economy will constitute the key, if not sole, battleground of the 2012 presidential election. That may well be the case. In…

  • Read more: What Is a (Big) Bird in the Hand Worth?
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    What Is a (Big) Bird in the Hand Worth?

    by Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. The Presidential debate on Wednesday was fascinating theater.  Much of the post-debate commentary in social media has focused on Mitt Romney’s threat to cut federal funding to PBS as a way of reducing the deficit (save Big Bird!) and President Obama’s unexpected restraint (including this piece of NSFW satire from…

  • Read more: FDA’s New Dance with Big Pharma: Are Patients the Band?
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    FDA’s New Dance with Big Pharma: Are Patients the Band?

    By Efthimios Parasidis One week prior to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in the health care cases, Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly voted in favor of health-related legislation (387-5 House; 96-1 Senate).  Industry and HHS were quick to congratulate our elected officials on a triumphant bipartisan achievement, while the FDA enthusiastically welcomed its latest collaboration with Big…

  • Read more: Taking Liberties (and Libertarians) Seriously
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    Taking Liberties (and Libertarians) Seriously

    By Abby Moncrieff First, an uncontroversial statement: Despite academics’ resistance, libertarian arguments played a huge role in the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision. That seems obvious. Chief Justice Roberts and the four dissenters based their Commerce Clause analyses largely on notions of individual freedom, asserting that the federal government should not be allowed to force individuals…

  • Read more: Obama v. Romney on Health Care
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    Obama v. Romney on Health Care

    By Holly Fernandez Lynch Ok, so we’ll have a NEJM-heavy day today! But you’ve got to check out one more thing, statements from the presidential candidates on the future of American health care.  This was the topic of a hugely successful Petrie-Flom Center event earlier this week, which was – sadly – off the record.  We…

  • Read more: NEJM: Cutting Family Planning in Texas (and more)
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    NEJM: Cutting Family Planning in Texas (and more)

    By Holly Fernandez Lynch Our friends over at the New England Journal of Medicine just alerted us to a new perspectives piece addressing the impact of cutting family planning funds in Texas (the piece was also picked up by Politico).  The authors interviewed 56 leaders of organizations throughout the state that provided reproductive health services using…

  • Read more: Upcoming Event at the JFK Jr. Forum: Health Care in 2013: Why the Race for the Presidency Matters
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    Upcoming Event at the JFK Jr. Forum: Health Care in 2013: Why the Race for the Presidency Matters

    By The Petrie-Flom Center This Monday, October 1, 2012 @ 6PM, our friends at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Harvard Kennedy School are hosting a panel on Health Care in 2013: Why the Race for the Presidency Matters. The event will feature: Robert Blendon, Menschel Professor; Senior Associate Dean, Harvard School of Public Health Vivek…