Context Matters: Affirmative Action, Public Health, and the Use of Population-Level Data
The Court’s rejection of group-level data in SFFA portends troubling implications for health equity and health policy.
Wendy Parmet
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Read more: Reclaiming Salus Populi Reclaiming Salus Populi
Public health law needs its own long-term plan. Such a strategy must re-establish salus populi, the recognition that public health is central to law.
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Read more: Who ‘Deserves’ Health, Who ‘Deserves’ Freedom? A Recurrent Divide in SCOTUS Vaccine Mandate Cases Who ‘Deserves’ Health, Who ‘Deserves’ Freedom? A Recurrent Divide in SCOTUS Vaccine Mandate Cases
Many occupational risks, after all, can be framed as universal. If those protections, too, fall, the most vulnerable will, as always, be most vulnerable.
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Read more: Major Questions about Vaccine Mandates, the Supreme Court, and the Major Questions Doctrine Major Questions about Vaccine Mandates, the Supreme Court, and the Major Questions Doctrine
A doctrine that essentially allows courts to strike down willy-nilly policies that they deem “major” undermines the federal government’s capacity to govern.
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Read more: What Makes Social Movements ‘Healthy’? What Makes Social Movements ‘Healthy’?
Social movements’ impact need not be salutatory, as is evident by the success that the anti-vax movement has had during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Read more: Social Justice in COVID-19 Response: The Legal Issues We Have to Talk About Social Justice in COVID-19 Response: The Legal Issues We Have to Talk About
Our government is beginning to recognize its responsibility to ensure basic functions. Will it continue to do so once the crisis has abated?
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Read more: Targeting Health: How Anti-Immigrant Policies Threaten Our Health & Our Humanity Targeting Health: How Anti-Immigrant Policies Threaten Our Health & Our Humanity
By Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. Parmet On May 19th of last year, Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez died of the flu while being held in a cell by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in south Texas. He was just 16, a migrant from Guatemala. Hours before his death, when his fever spiked to 103, a nurse suggested that…
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Read more: Immigration And Health Care Under The Trump Administration Immigration And Health Care Under The Trump Administration
This new post by Wendy E. Parmet appears on the Health Affairs Blog as part of a series stemming from the Sixth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Tuesday, December 12, 2017. Non-citizen immigrants are the canaries in the health care coal mine. Disproportionately poor, non-white, and non-English speaking, and without access to…
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Read more: American Beverage Association v. San Francisco: When the First Amendment Jeopardizes Public Health American Beverage Association v. San Francisco: When the First Amendment Jeopardizes Public Health
Crossposted from the Public Health Law Watch blog. By Micah Berman, Wendy E. Parmet, and Jason A. Smith Last week, while the health law world focused on the Republicans’ renewed attempt to repeal and replace the ACA, the Ninth Circuit struck an ominous blow to public health. As we have noted previously, federal courts in recent years have relied on an…
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Read more: Better Care Act Targets Immigrants Better Care Act Targets Immigrants
If you need yet another reason to conclude that the Senate Republicans’ proposed health care bill – the so-called Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA)– is designed more to appease different parts of the Republican base than improve the health care financing system, look no further than page 2 of the draft. There hiding in plain…