By I. Glenn Cohen Last week, as I mentioned before, Judge Wolf (D. Mass) ruled that Michelle Kosilek, who was born as a man but has received hormone treatments and lives as a woman in an all-male prison, was entitled to the sex re-assignment surgery that the Department of Corrections’ doctor ordered as the treatment…
by Rebecca Haffajee Earlier this week, the Boston Globe reported that medical debt is still a problem in Massachusetts, with scant change since the implementation of health reform legislation in 2006. Specifically, the article reports that of approximately 3,000 adults surveyed in 2010, 17.5% had trouble paying medical bills in the past year and 20%…
By I. Glenn Cohen Interesting decision (H/T Wall Street Journal Law Blog ) from the D. Mass ordering the state to pay for a sex change operation for a prisoner. I’ll have more to say on the case soon once I’ve digested, but just wanted to share it for now.
