Tuesday, September 02, 2025

HealthLawBlog is moving to Substack

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After 20+ years and over 1,100 posts here at Blogspot, I'm heading to Substack. You can get there by clicking this link . You can subscr...

The CDC After Trump's & RFKJr's Friday Afternoon Massacre

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There is a must-read NY Times   op-ed in today's paper : The signers are 9 former CDC directors (permanent or acting).  They served duri...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

The CDC: Of Revolving Doors and Dark Clouds and Chopping Blocks, Oh My

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[UPDATE BELOW]  The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, longtime government scientist Dr. Susan Monarez, was confirm...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Texas and Trump: Failing Grades on Abortion and Measles

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A couple of recent articles show the impact of massive public-health failures on the part of both the state of Texas and the federal governm...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Providers with Larceny in Their Heart

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One of the biggest weeks of indictments, arrests, convictions, and sentencing in a long time, as announced by US HHS/OIG (Aug. 22):  Three ...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

US DOJ Seeks Transgender Patient and Provider Information from Leading Pediatric Hospital

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DOJ has subpoenaed Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to obtain 15 categories of information, including patient names and dates of birt...
Thursday, August 07, 2025

Trump Administration Plans to Burn $9.7 Million in Contraceptive Medicines and Devices

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According to a report in today's N.Y. Times ( see also NPR and Reuters ), the Trump Administration is poised to destroy nearly $10 mi...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Maternal Mortality: Elections Have Consequences

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 From The Commonwealth Fund ( July 29, 2025 ):  The United States has long had the worst maternal mortality rate of any wealthy nation — a r...
Saturday, July 26, 2025

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Now You See It, Soon You Won't

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At the end of June, in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc. , the Supreme Court reversed District Judge Reed O'Connor and the Fifth Ci...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Organ Donation After Cardiac Death

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There was a time when organ donation after cardiac (or circulatory) death ("DCD") was controversial. Then it wasn't (at least ...
Monday, July 14, 2025

The Administration's Three-Pronged Assault on Health Care

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I wish I could offer a link to an outstanding article in the current NY Review of Books  entitled "The Dismantling of American Health ...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Crazier . . . .

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This post has nothing to do with health law, but it is in keeping with the subjects HealthLawBlog identifies as within its purview: Constitu...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

The Outrageous Upside-Down World of the Department of Justice

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A Salt Lake City plastic surgeon -- Kirk Moore -- was indicted in 2023 for a COVID scam. I'll let the U.S. Attorney's announcement ...
Friday, July 11, 2025

New England Journal of Medicine: How the Supreme Court Got the Tennessee Transgender Case Wrong

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In an analysis piece  posted on the NEJM  website, law professor Scott Skinner-Thompson criticizes SCOTUS's recent opinion in the Skrmet...
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

U.S. Measles Cases Reach 33-Year High

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Twenty-five years after measles was eliminated in this country, there have been 1,288 cases this year (as of July 8), according to the CDC ....
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Larry Summers: One Big Beautiful Bill Act* is Shameful

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In today's NY Times , economist Larry Summers shreds the new law * not  for the horrible macroeconomic effects (an exercise he has alrea...
Tuesday, July 01, 2025

DOJ's Annual Health Care Fraud Takedown Nets Record Charges

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On June 30, DOJ announced the results of this year's Takedown: The Justice Department today announced the results of its 2025 National ...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Tracking the Changes in the Senate's Reconciliation Bill (Updated Daily)

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The Kaiser Family Foundation's website is an invaluable resource for anyone trying to figure out what's at stake as the Senate stru...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

The Coming Health Care Apocalypse

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Over on Substack,* Nobel laureate Paul Krugman takes a hard look at the impact of the Big Bad Budget Bill that's taking shape in the Se...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Trump Administration v. Rule of Law Redux

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Trump's Department of Justice sued all 14 trial judges who serve in the District of Maryland. DOJ contests a standing order issued by th...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

The Supreme Court's "Disastrous Decision"

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HealthLawBlog  tracks decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that have some bearing on the cost, quality, access, and equitable distribution of...