Sunday, January 19, 2020

WaPo: The health care industry is letting surgeons behave like muggers

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And we patients are expected to negotiate with them? Read on . It’s not only surgeons, of course, but this Washington Post story lays ou...
Friday, January 03, 2020

20 Democratic-led states ask SCOTUS to review the 5th Circuit's ACA opinion

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The Washington Post was one of the first on this story, but there will be dozens more before the day is over. I'll track the best of th...

Link to Professor Bagley‘s commentary on Fifth Circuit ACA opinion

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His NEJM argument is laid out in The Atlantic:  https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/affordable-care-acts-unconstitutional-flaw...
Wednesday, January 01, 2020

More on the Fifth Circuit’s partisan hatchet job in the ACA case

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University of Michigan’s Nicholas Bagley does a fine job of shredding the logic of the court’s opinion in an article posted online today by ...
Monday, December 30, 2019

2019 - Going, going, gone . . .

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It's been a while since I posted to this blog, but 2019 shouldn't come and go without some recognition of a few developments of note...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Physician-assisted suicide (or Aid-in-Dying) ain't easy

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This is a powerful piece (reprinted with permission) from the Kaiser Family Foundation: ‘No One Is Ever Really Ready’: Aid-In-Dying Patie...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Billion-dollar Medicare fraud case in Miami on the ropes

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. . . for prosecutorial misconduct. However this case turns out, both sides have issues for the inevitable appeal. https://www.miamiherald...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

First: smoke and mirrors. Followed by: pure bunkum.

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The Trump administrations recent rulemaking for "association health plans" -- which allow small businesses and others to band to...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Why is this man smiling?

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The U. S. House of Representatives has once again voted against the ACA's tax on medical device manufacturers , after two previous pos...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

When futility itself is futile

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Medical futility represents a judgment that further treatment would not provide a benefit to the patient. (Set aside for present purposes th...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Johnson & Johnson mega-verdict

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From Bloomberg Legal News:      "Johnson & Johnson should ready itself for a flood of new lawsuits after a jury ordered the compa...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

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Brett Kavanaugh is, by all accounts, a splendid fellow, as well as a well-credentialed appellate judge who -- in addition to being quite con...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Hoping to visit this blog more than once every four years!

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Just checking in. I am thinking about reactivating this site, now that I am teaching Health Law, Public Health Law & Ethics, and Bioethi...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

American University's 7th annual Health Law & Policy Summer Institute

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From Matthew W. Pierce, Associate Director of American University's Health Law & Justice Program, comes an announcement about the ...
Friday, December 31, 2010

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It's obviously been a while since I posted to this blog. Between directing an ethics center and maintaining a pretty heavy teaching and ...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Dallas Morning News' excellent series on health care costs (and other things that matter)

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Hooray to the Dallas Morning News for its week-long series on health care and the systemic issues that have contributed to the crisis we are...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

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Good article in today's NY Times comparing the Obama health reform plan to the Massachusetts experience, including a nifty graphic tha...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

Dallas Morning News: series on palliative care

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This is quite a remarkable series of articles on end-of-life care and in particular palliative care at Baylor University Medical Center. Sho...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

WSJ backs incentives for organ donation

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I know it will not come as a surprise that the house organ for American capitalism thinks a market for buying and selling human organs would...
Friday, December 12, 2008

Vatican issues 3rd major bioethics pronouncement in 21 years

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First, it was Donum Vitae (The Gift of Life) in 1987, followed by Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) in 1995. Now the Vatican has given...