Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Nero + Fiddle = Covid-19 disaster

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Trump and Pence know not what they say or do. And thousands of people are going to pay the ultimate price for their folly:  Breaking News...

Commentary on June Medical Services v. Russo

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Today's three SCOTUSblog commentators aren't claiming "Victory" in yesterday's 5-4 ruling striking down Louisiana'...

One pill retails for $15.98 or $0.11: Who decides?

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As if I needed more evidence of how messed up our health care system is. I went to the pharmacy this morning to pick up a 90-day supply of...
Sunday, May 03, 2020

Liability protection for employers in a post-pandemic world

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The Washington Post has a piece on the split between GOP and Dem leadership in the US Senate over a proposed blanket immunity for employers...
Monday, April 27, 2020

A Victory for the ACA in the Supreme Court

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The government suffered a loss today in its on-going battle to undo the Affordable Care Act through its "death by a thousand cuts"...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Smart comments on responding to the coronavirus pandemic

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Words to the wise from Greg Mankiw:  http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2020/03/thoughts-on-pandemic.html .
Monday, March 02, 2020

Covid-19 and politics

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The New Yorker has a good piece online  (not sure the link works for non-subscribers). I'd forgotten that VP Pence told Anthony Fauci on...

Our patchwork "system" of health care

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Here are the first three headlines from today's Becker's CFO Report : CHS to end inpatient care at 2 Florida hospitals  Full story...

Good summary of the ACA case now officially before the Supreme Court

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From The New York Times

SCOTUS to review 5th Circuit's bizarro-world decision in the ACA case

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From SCOTUSBlog : California v. Texas Docket No. 19-840 Issues: (1) Whether the individual and state plaintiffs in this case have estab...
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...