Ginsburg’s Hobby Lobby Dissent Song
By Kevin Outterson (After the commercial, sorry, but worth it.) h/t Blue Mass Group @koutterson
Health Law Policy
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Read more: Translating “ELSI” into Policy Translating “ELSI” into Policy
by Guest Blogger Wylie Burke MD, PhD. When the Human Genome Project began in 1990, the National Center for Human Genome Research – now the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) – created a research funding program for evaluation of the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genomics. ELSI scholars study a wide range…
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Read more: Medicare Coverage for Sex Change Surgery: How We Got Here Medicare Coverage for Sex Change Surgery: How We Got Here
As mentioned in co-blogger Matthew Lawrence‘s prior posts (here) and (here), Medicare’s Departmental Appeals Board (DAB) recently vacated a decades-old National Coverage Determination (NCD) precluding coverage for sex change therapy. That opens the door for Medicare coverage for sex change therapy, but does not guarantee coverage. In this second blog of a two-part post, we will discuss how we…
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Read more: Call for Submissions: Journal of Law and the Biosciences Call for Submissions: Journal of Law and the Biosciences
Call for Submissions: Journal of Law and the Biosciences Deadline: Rolling. The Journal of Law and the Biosciences (JLB) is actively soliciting original manuscripts, responses, essays, and book reviews devoted to the examination of issues related to the intersection of law and biosciences, including bioethics, neuroethics, genetics, reproductive technologies, stem cells, enhancement, patent law, and food and drug…
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Read more: Big Data, Predictive Analytics, Health Care, Law, and Ethics Big Data, Predictive Analytics, Health Care, Law, and Ethics
Update: The Moore Foundation has generously paid to make my article available as open access on their website here. Today I am speaking at Health Affairs’ “Using Big Data to Transform Health Care” in DC, that will also launch its new issue devoted to the topic. I have a co-authored paper in the volume entitled…
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Read more: In the Aftermath of Hobby Lobby In the Aftermath of Hobby Lobby
By Gregory Curfman and Holly Fernandez Lynch [A quick follow up to our recent NEJM Perspective on the case, with I. Glenn Cohen] Immediately after Justice Samuel Alito’s announcement on June 30 of the majority opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the Supreme Court took further actions on the contraceptive mandate, and both supporters and opponents…
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Read more: Medicare Coverage for Sex Change Therapy: What’s Next Medicare Coverage for Sex Change Therapy: What’s Next
By Matthew Lawrence and Elizabeth Guo Last month Medicare’s policy on coverage for sex change therapy changed somewhat. (See Matt’s earlier post here.) Specifically, Medicare’s Departmental Appeals Board invalidated the long-standing National Coverage Determination that dubbed sex change therapy to be non-covered, per se. Co-blogger Elizabeth Guo and I have done some further digging on…
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Read more: Religious Freedom and Access to Health Care Religious Freedom and Access to Health Care
By I. Glenn Cohen, Holly Fernandez Lynch, and Gregory Curfman Check out the “hot off the press” New England Journal of Medicine Perspectives piece “When Religious Freedom Clashes with Access to Care” by Petrie-Flom Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen, Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch, and NEJM Executive Editor (and PFC Faculty Affiliate), Gregory Curfman. We review the…
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Read more: What the EPA Case *Really* Has to Say About the ACA Subsidies Cases What the EPA Case *Really* Has to Say About the ACA Subsidies Cases
By Abbe R. Gluck Cross-posted at Balkinzation and Election Law Blog. The proponents of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax subsidies law suits (currently pending in both the D.C. and Fourth Circuits and which I have discussed here, here, here, and here) have seized on the Court’s recent decision in Utility Air Regulatory Group v….
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Read more: Job Opportunity: Yale Law School Health Law Fellowship, 2014-2015 Job Opportunity: Yale Law School Health Law Fellowship, 2014-2015
YLS is seeking to hire a Senior Fellow in Health Law, who will taken on director-type responsibilities for YLS’s health program, including conference and event development and management, fundraising and policy-paper writing. The fellow will also have the option of devoting some time to either teaching or his/her own scholarship or policy work. The position…