By Nicolas Terry A major player in health law initiatives has announced his retirement from the House. Rep Henry Waxman had major roles in the passage of the Affordable Care Act, SCHIP and the Ryan White Care Act. More details here and here.
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new piece over at NBC News online on Nelson Mandela’s AIDS legacy: […] It had been an enormous mistake to ignore the epidemic, made even worse by installing an AIDS denialist as his favored successor. In 2003 Mandela began to speak out plainly and forcefully about AIDS. And he…
By The Petrie-Flom Center The Petrie-Flom Center invites abstracts for its 2014 Annual Conference: “Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy.” The conference will be held at Harvard Law School on May 2 and 3, 2014, and seeks to address the following questions: Are there features unique to health and health care that prevent individuals, groups,…
By The Petrie-Flom Center The Petrie-Flom Center invites abstracts for its 2014 Annual Conference: “Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy.” The conference will be held at Harvard Law School on May 2 and 3, 2014, and seeks to address the following questions: Are there features unique to health and health care that prevent individuals, groups,…
By The Petrie-Flom Center More information, including registration, is available on the conference website.
By I. Glenn Cohen In a week where most of the health law news has been, shall we say, less than hopeful for those of us who like the idea of robust health insurance expansion, as the Washington Blade reports there was one bright spot for progressive health policy: The House and Senate passed the HOPE (HIV…
By The Petrie-Flom Center More information, including registration, is available on the conference website.
By The Petrie-Flom Center The Petrie-Flom Center invites abstracts for its 2014 Annual Conference: “Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy.” The conference will be held at Harvard Law School on May 2 and 3, 2014, and seeks to address the following questions: Are there features unique to health and health care that prevent individuals, groups,…
By I. Glenn Cohen I have been a bit slow on blogging recently due to moving to a new house at the start of a semester (remind me why I thought *that* would be an OK idea again?) but I did want to share this very interesting piece from the New Yorker by Christopher Glazek…
By The Petrie-Flom Center The Petrie-Flom Center has released the description and call for abstracts for its 2014 Annual Conference: “Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy.” The conference will be held at Harvard Law School on May 2 and 3, 2014, and seeks to address the following questions: Are there features unique to health and…
