Join Us on April 19th for an Interdisciplinary Conference on New Directions in Health Policy and Law
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Read more: New Paper on Coercion and the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act New Paper on Coercion and the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act
By I. Glenn Cohen I have a new paper on the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act, just published in the European peer-reviewed philosophy journal Ethical Perspectives. It is available for free download here. Here is the abstract: While NFIB v. Sebelius largely upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it did not do…
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Read more: Is Paying For Medical Care Like Buying A Used Car? Is Paying For Medical Care Like Buying A Used Car?
By Nadia N. Sawicki Two recent publications prompt me to ask this question. The first, forthcoming in JAMA Internal Medicine, is a study by Jaime Rosenthal, a student at Washington University in St. Louis. Rosenthal and her colleagues set out to obtain pricing data for total hip arthroplasty from 20 top-ranked orthopedic hospitals and 102 representative…
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Read more: Peter Orszag on Former Petrie-Flom Center Fellow (now Prof.) Michael Frakes’ Work on Med-Mal, Sequestration, and the Budget Peter Orszag on Former Petrie-Flom Center Fellow (now Prof.) Michael Frakes’ Work on Med-Mal, Sequestration, and the Budget
By I. Glenn Cohen 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…
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Read more: Impact of the Sequester on Health Care: By the Numbers Impact of the Sequester on Health Care: By the Numbers
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…
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Read more: Final Tally on Insurance Marketplaces Final Tally on Insurance Marketplaces
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…
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Read more: The High Cost of Health Care: Why Some Pay $240 for a $9 Bottle of Pills The High Cost of Health Care: Why Some Pay $240 for a $9 Bottle of Pills
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…
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Read more: Contrasting Views: Recent Publications on Access to Medicines Contrasting Views: Recent Publications on Access to Medicines
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…
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Read more: Tomorrow: Health Law Year in P/Review, 02/01/13 Tomorrow: Health Law Year in P/Review, 02/01/13
By The Petrie-Flom Center Newly added: Remarks from Dean Martha Minow at 3:15 Wrap-up commentary from Kristin Madison, Northeastern Law, at 4:45
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Read more: Twitter Round-Up (1/20-1/26) Twitter Round-Up (1/20-1/26)
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.…