This post is part of our Eighth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review symposium. You can read all of the posts in the series here. Review the conference’s full agenda and register for the event on the Petrie-Flom Center’s website. By Joseph Antos Health spending in every major developed country is substantially below that of the U.S., and…
This post is part of our Eighth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review symposium. You can read all of the posts in the series here. Review the conference’s full agenda and register for the event on the Petrie-Flom Center’s website. By Prof. I. Glenn Cohen and Kaitlyn Dowling The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy,…
By Alexa Richardson The next Supreme Court term is shaping up to include a number of critical cases that will impact health law. From insurance, the Affordable Care Act, abortion access, and mental health, the decisions made this term could have significant impacts on public health moving forward. Here are some of the key health…
By Nicolas Terry TWIHL welcomes back Professor Wendy Mariner, Professor of Health Law at Boston University School of Public Health and Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Professor Mariner is a prolific scholar whose broad and deep understanding of the U.S. healthcare system is the envy of all her colleagues.
By David Orentlicher Should the United States achieve universal access to health care by adopting a single-payer, Medicare-for-All kind of system? Or should we build on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and not disrupt the health care coverage of the 160 million Americans who have private health insurance? Both reforms rely on important arguments about…
By Nicolas Terry This episode was recorded at the 2019 meeting of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools during a panel reviewing the year in healthcare financing. In this episode I take a look at state regulation of health insurance, first, from the perspective of states playing defense and shoring up their own laws in…
By David Orentlicher Once again this past Thursday, the Democratic presidential candidate debate began on the topic of health care reform, and moderator George Stephanopoulos quickly steered the discussion to what he termed “the heart” of the debate. Should the United States increase access to care by building on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or…
Recorded at the 2019 annual meeting of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools, Professor Elizabeth Weeks, Associate Dean for Faculty Development & the J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law discusses the latest high profile ACA case, Texas v. U.S. Professor Weeks is a highly regarded health law…
Judge Reed O’Connor’s decision is notable for both its expansion of religious exemptions, and its casual disregard for the realities of health insurance markets.
Age-based criteria can be not only legal but also ethically acceptable and even desirable.
