Friday, November 30, 2007

WSJ: Health policy caps mean catastrophic coverage may not be there when needed

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Yesterday's WSJ ran a story that highlights the plight of the insured middle-class in this country: It's possible to max out a healt...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

When hospice patients don't die quickly enough, Medicare comes knocking

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Some years ago, the Medicare program proposed to recoup hospice payments if a patient didn't die within 6 months, which was the probable...
Friday, November 09, 2007

Krugman: Health Care Excuses

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Okay, I know he's a liberal (Exh. 1: "The Conscience of a Liberal" ), and so am I, so there are times when I suppose Paul Krug...

Insurer misconduct alleged in California

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From today's Modern Healthcare : Calif. insurance chief probes report of cancellations California’s insurance commissioner is investiga...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Deputies seize baby to test blood against parents' will

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Deputies seize baby to test blood against parents' will - Associated Press -- Here's a nicely framed conflict between public health...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

Iglehart on the House's failure to override Bush's SCHIP veto

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John Iglehart, the founding editor of Health Affairs and national corespondent for the New England Journal of Medicine , posted his instant...
Saturday, October 20, 2007

Federeal employees' health plan not much of a model for reform

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There's a good analysis of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan (FEHBP) by Reed Abelson in The New York Times today. Various pre...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

Major-party presidential candidates on health reform

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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

SCHIP

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Here's a news post courtesy of FDLI's SmartBrief: White House to face state SCHIP lawsuits -- New Jersey was the first of several s...
Friday, September 28, 2007

FDA's oversight of human-subject research: slim to none

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That's the bottom line of a report from the Inspector General of DHHS, according to an article in the New York Times . The IG's repo...
Sunday, September 16, 2007

Health Lawyers Weekly, September 14

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Crowell & Moring partner Art Lerner and counsel Michael Paddock have an analysis of the FTC's recent Evanston Northwestern Healthcar...

Vatican reaffirms stance on obligatory nature of ANH

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"The administration of food and water even by artificial means is, in principle, an ordinary and proportionate means of preserving life...

Insuring the uninsured: the right thing to do, but what's in it for me?

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Today's New York Times has an article on the new round of health-care reform proposals that are being advanced by various presidential...
Thursday, August 30, 2007

Drake Law School looking for health law/insurance law teacher

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Faculty opening at Drake: DRAKE LAW SCHOOL seeks applications for a tenure-track position in the area of health law, insurance law and relat...
Monday, August 27, 2007

Medicare beneficiaries lag in taking advantage of covered screenings and preventive care

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From the Wall Street Journal (via AHLA's Health Law Daily [link should be good for about a week]): CMS says Medicare is spending more...
Monday, August 13, 2007

Tax-exempt hospitals and "community benefit"

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This is a bit tardy but well worth noting here and reading the underlying documents as time permits. In July the IRS issued an interim repor...
Sunday, August 12, 2007

Health Lawyers Weekly, August 10

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The AHLA's Health Lawyers Weekly features two articles by lawyers from Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.S.C., on the IRS...

NY Times editorial on why the U.S. doesn't have the world's best health system

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The Times' editorial looks at the Commonwealth Fund's recent international report card that compared the U.S. with Australia, Cana...
Tuesday, August 07, 2007

DC Circuit (en banc) reverses panel decision in Abigail Alliance case

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The much-anticipated en banc decision of the D.C. Circuit came down today. The court ruled, 8-2, that dying patients do not have a fundamen...
Friday, August 03, 2007

Security issues for hospitals

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Scary words: "Hospital = Target" In this week's Health Lawyers Weekly , Mark Rogers analyzes hospital-security issues in a po...