Sunday, March 28, 2004

Medicare: belly up or double down?

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The scary news out of DC last week was from the Medicare Board of Trustees, whose 2004 Annual Report predicted that the middle-class health...
Saturday, March 27, 2004

Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Backs Privacy of Hospital Abortion Records

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As reported by the N.Y. Times today, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (in Chicago) became the first appellate court to upho...
Tuesday, March 23, 2004

SCOTUS heard oral arguments in the Texas HMO case today.

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As previously discussed here ( Nov. 3 and Nov. 6 ), SCOTUS has two taken two Texas cases, both decided (with two others) in a single Fifth ...
Sunday, March 21, 2004

One Crucial Issue in Pledge Case: What Does "Under God" Mean?

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In addition to this key question -- which Linda Greenhouse's article in today's NY Times summarizes nicely -- there is a tricky li...

Law profs weigh in on Scalia's recusal decision.

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Interesting piece in today's NY Times : 6 law profs grade Scalia's 21-page memorandum opinion denying the motion of the Sierra Club...
Saturday, March 20, 2004

More on Scalia's recusal refusal.

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Much has been made in the days following Scalia's memorandum opinion denying Sierra Club's motion to recuse about "the appeara...

More on the "F-word"

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The FCC can't have the last word , now, can it?

CMS issues guidance for exceptions to specialty-hospital moratorium.

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Friday that it had issued a clarification of its "moratorium on physici...

Bush Medicare Reform Bill Become a Nightmare for GOP.

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Excellent summary of the Medicare reform-law mess in today's Miami Herald . Up-to-date details on all pending investigations, and this...

Times editorial on administration's phony TV ads.

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The Times ran an editorial today to make a point you would have thought did not to be made: that it's wrong for the government to crea...

Medicare Actuary Gives Wanted Data to Congress.

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The NY Times reports today that on Friday Richard Foster turned over the data that shows the actual projected costs of the Medicare reform...
Friday, March 19, 2004

"F"-word illegal on broadcast airwaves (can cable be far behind?) . . .

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. . . or, "Farewell, Tony Soprano. It was fun while it lasted." WARNING: Mature Content Follows. Read at your own risk. The FCC ...
Thursday, March 18, 2004

Scalia responds to recusal motion: fuggeddaboudit!

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His 21-pg. memorandum explaining why he won't recuse is here . Instant pundits can be expected to opine that any recusal suggestion (or...

Volunteers in Medicine Institute

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A former student is working (pro bono, of course) to help set up a free medical clinic in a Dallas suburb. The hope is that by creating a c...
Wednesday, March 17, 2004

DOD funds Swedish stem cell study.

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Reuters and others reported Wednesday that the Department of Defense was awarding $240,000 in research grant money to Swedish researchers l...

Lots of new stuff on the political intrigue surrounding the Medicare reform bill.

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The Times is really working this story. Here's what is in Thursday's issue: A story by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Robert Pear on ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Beyond Human (President' Council on Bioethics).

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In his recent article for Slate , Carl Elliott notes: Leon Kass, the University of Chicago social theorist and bioethicist, has had the mis...

2 ministers charged in gay marriages

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As reported in the Boston Globe and elsewehere , Ulster County (NY) DA Donald Williams has filed criminal charges against two Unitarian-Uni...

Jerome Groopman profile in NY Times

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Jerome Groopman is a top AIDS cancer researcher and clinician, but more to the point, he's a gifted writer of clinical narratives and o...

Medicare-reform shenanigans.

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Good editorial in today's NY Times about both elements of the Bush Administration's fraudulent campaign last fall to sell Congress...