By Gregory Curfman Just when the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has won a second major Supreme Court victory in King v. Burwell, conservative critics of the ACA are back on the attack, this time directing their ire towards the medical device tax. Having lost the battle on subsidies, they are now focusing on the device…
Christie Hager, a speaker at the Petrie-Flom Center’s “King v. Burwell and the Future of the Affordable Care Act” conference on April 1 has a new piece up at the Health Affairs Blog discussing the Supreme Court’s decision. From the piece: Chief Justice Roberts, in the majority opinion in King v. Burwell, confirmed that the only insurance spiral now is…
Guest Blogger Abigail R. Moncrieff of the Boston University School of Law and a speaker at the Petrie-Flom Center’s “King v. Burwell and the Future of the Affordable Care Act” conference on April 1 has a new piece up at the Health Affairs Blog discussing the Supreme Court’s decision. From the piece: Last Christmas, I spent a somewhat panicky inter-semester break writing…
David K. Jones of the Boston University School of Public Health and a speaker at the Petrie-Flom Center’s “King v. Burwell and the Future of the Affordable Care Act” conference on April 1, has a new piece up at the Health Affairs Blog discussing the Supreme Court’s decision. From the piece: The Supreme Court’s decision in King v. Burwell brings an…
By Rachel Sachs Academic Fellow Rachel Sachs has a new piece up at the Health Affairs Blog discussing the Supreme Court’s decision in King v. Burwell. From the piece: Chief Justice Roberts has once again saved a core provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In King v Burwell, a majority of six Justices upheld the validity of an…
By Rachel Sachs [Originally published on The Conversation]. The core of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has now survived its second trip to the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority in King v Burwell, holding that the federal government may provide subsidies for citizens to purchase health insurance on exchanges that were…
By Gregory Curfman Bill of Health contributor Gregory Curfman has a new piece up at the Health Affairs Blog discussing the Supreme Court’s decision in King v. Burwell in the broader context of Americans’ right to care. From the piece: Do Americans have a fundamental right to health care? This oft-debated question is timely given the Supreme Court’s stunning…
By Joan H. Krause [Cross-posted from Hamilton and Griffin on Rights] The long-awaited and much-debated opinion in King v. Burwell is here. In an opinion written by Chief Justice Roberts – who almost single-handedly saved the ACA with his 2012 opinion in N.F.I.B. v. Sebelius – and newly joined by N.F.I.B. dissenter Justice Kennedy as…
By David Orentlicher [cross-posted at HealthLawProfs blog and orentlicher.tumblr.com] For those who feared that the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision would open the door for employers to block contraceptive access for women in the workplace, welcome reassurance has come this week from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. According to the Fifth Circuit, when the…
By Wendy Parmet With Chief Justice Roberts’ remarkably strong decision today for the Supreme Court in King v. Burwell millions of Americans can now rest assured: affordable health insurance is here to stay. There may not be a constitutional right to health care in the U.S., and thanks to the Court’s 2012 decision regarding the…
