In Bloomberg News earlier in the week, Peter Orszag praises a paper that Cornell Law Professor Michael Frakes wrote when he was a fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center. As Orszag writes “Most of the costs in the U.S. health-care system are incurred in a small number of expensive cases. The top 25 percent of Medicare…
By: Katie Booth The looming sequester will have a significant impact on health care, including cuts to Medicare, FDA, CDC, NIH, and Affordable Care Act programs. Budget cuts could slow down the drug approval process, impede the tracking of infectious diseases, and lead to layoffs for hundreds of thousands of workers in the health care…
By Nicolas Terry The Commonwealth Fund, here, has a very useful update on state choices for their marketplace types. The importance of these exchanges is noted by the authors: “The Congressional Budget Office estimates that by the end of next year some 9 million people will have enrolled in plans offered through their state marketplace, rising…
By Jonathan J. Darrow An earlier post discussed the equivocal efficacy of Propecia (finasteride) as a baldness remedy, ending with the provocative assertion that, efficacy aside, “there is little reason for anyone ever to buy or consume Propecia (finasteride), or any doctor ever to prescribe it, since a much cheaper and identical chemical sold under…
by Adriana Benedict Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and World Trade Organization (WTO) released a trilateral study on Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation: Intersections between public health, intellectual property and trade. According to the official summary of the book, the publication is aimed at policy makers…
Newly added: Remarks from Dean Martha Minow at 3:15 Wrap-up commentary from Kristin Madison, Northeastern Law, at 4:45
By Casey Thomson Though simply the consequence of bad translation, the story of the Harvard geneticist George Church looking for a woman to act as surrogate for a Neanderthal clone shocked the internet bioethics world. A look at the problems with this hypothetical situation is just one of the components of this week’s Twitter Round-Up….
By Katie Booth In the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Auburn Regional Medical Center, the Court held that a suit against HHS by eighteen hospitals alleging intentional underpayment of Medicare reimbursements was barred by a 180-day internal agency deadline for appeals of reimbursement decisions. The rub is that the hospitals only found out about the…
