News, Resources, and Events Tagged "Access"
ACA Round-Up: Health Plan Filing Deadlines, Affordability Data, Association Health Plan Litigation, And More
Over the past few weeks, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released new guidance and data related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In addition, several pending…
Video now available! Nudging Organ Donation: Tools to Encourage Organ Availability
Online Viewing Couldn't join the webinar? Check out the conversation @PetrieFlom using #NudgingDonation. Watch fully captioned video of the event. Learn more about the issues! Check out these…
Video now available! Understanding the Role of Race in Health: A Moderated Discussion
Online Viewing Couldn't join the webinar? Check out the conversation @PetrieFlom using #RaceandHealth. Watch fully captioned video of the event! Event Description Structural racism pervades all facets of society,…
Explaining California v. Texas: A Guide to the Case Challenging the ACA
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) future continues to be uncertain as the law’s constitutionality will once again be considered by the U.S. Supreme Court in…
Video now available! COVID-19 and the Politics of Reproductive Health: Global Perspectives
Online Resources Couldn't join the webinar? Check out the conversation @PetrieFlom using #GlobalReproHealth. Watch fully captioned video of the event! Event Description The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged health systems…
Video now available! Reproductive Rights in 2020: June Medical Services v. Russo and COVID-19
Online Resources Couldn't join the webinar? Check out the conversation @PetrieFlom using #ReproRights2020. Watch fully captioned video of the event! Event Description 2020 has been a notable year for reproductive…
Video now available! Disability, COVID-19, and Triage: Exploring Resource Allocation and the Framing of Disability
Online Resources Couldn't join the webinar? Learn more about the issues. Check out some scholarship from our panelists. Check out the conversation @PetrieFlom using #disabilitycovidtriage! Watch fully captioned video…
Trump Administration to Give States Wide Latitude in Medicaid Block-Grant Plan: Plan would allow states to add eligibility requirements, benefit changes and drug-coverage limits
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration on Thursday released details for how states can apply to convert federal Medicaid funding to block grants that would let them impose changes such as…
Advancing women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health and equity
Petrie-Flom Center Senior Fellow on Global Health and Rights Alicia Ely Yamin is a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Independent Accountability Panel for Every Woman, Every Child, Every…
Nearly 700,000 SNAP Recipients Could Lose Benefits Under New Trump Rule
[...] Provisions of the new rule are slated to take effect on April 1, 2020. But opposition to the change is strong, and legal challenges are possible. States say it will impose a…
Government To Provide PrEP To Uninsured Americans To Further Its Goal Of Eradicating HIV Epidemic
KHN Morning Briefing: Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations Some American cities with high HIV rates already have programs that pay the costs of PrEP for the…
This portable MRI developed by a Yale professor could make health care more affordable.
From the article: More data and greater accessibility have led to “serious ethical concerns,” said Francis Shen, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. He and…
If Power Outages Are California’s New Normal, What About Home Medical Needs?
[...] “That is the real travesty of this PG&E plan,” said Sandy Jay, a nurse practitioner at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital in Sonoma County, about 130 miles southwest…
Indiana backs away from Medicaid work requirements
Indiana has become the second state in two weeks to retreat from compelling some poor people to work or prepare for a job to qualify for Medicaid, pulling back from…
Book Launch: Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States
Description In June 2019, Cambridge University Press published Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States. This volume, edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, and…
The Problematic Law And Policy Of Medicaid Block Grants
From the article: Recent news reports indicate that the Trump administration is seeking to authorize states to convert open-ended federal Medicaid funds into a block grant system, and a formal…
Call for Papers: The Politics of Health 2020: International Health Humanities Consortium Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
From the description: The sixth annual Health Humanities Consortium (HHC) conference will explore the politics of health and healthcare in the context of world events and a vital 2020…
Research Associate (Health Care), The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School
Duties & Responsibilities The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (www.isc.hbs.edu) is a joint Institute of Harvard University and Harvard Business School, dedicated to supporting and extending the…
On Life and Death in Rikers with Dr. Homer Venters
“The closing of Rikers is absolutely necessary. It's not sufficient to transform the criminal justice system in New York City to become more humane, but it's necessary.…
The Neuroscience of Hate
Description Human beings are biologically predisposed to divide humanity into ingroups and outgroups, and this comes with a great social cost – the capacity for hate. While we may view…
Health Law Workshop: Craig Konnoth
Presentation Download the Presentation: "Medical Civil Rights" About the Presenter Craig Konnoth is Associate Professor of Law at Colorado Law. His work lies at the intersection of health law and…
Criticism of ‘right to try’ law for experimental drugs after it passes in US
From the article: The US government has controversially announced that it will allow unapproved, experimental drugs to be given to terminally ill patients. The ‘right to try’ law…