Wednesday, October 28, 2020

"The Pandemic is Over?" The Mind Boggles

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This nonsense didn't come from the Trump campaign. It wasn't uttered by one of the president's surrogates out on the campaign tr...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Lessons for the Next Pandemic—Act Very, Very Quickly (WSJ Covid Storm series)

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This article  (10-11-20) by Betsy McKay is the latest in the Wall Street Journal 's excellent series, "The Covid Storm." It i...
Friday, October 23, 2020

Practical Strategies for Healthcare Providers to Limit Claims Involving Alleged Contraction of COVID-19 on Premises (Haynes and Boone Newsletter)

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Haynes and Boone's recent newsletter on limiting COVID-19-related liability is a gold mine of practical analysis and advice. It is also...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Care at the End of Life

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The New England Journal of Medicine just published an incredibly insightful and moving Perspective piece, "Learning About End-of-Life ...
Sunday, October 18, 2020

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As reported by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram , the Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to review the order of the Second Court of Appeals...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Nicholas Kristof: On the Right Side of History

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Kristof's column in today's N.Y. Times is well worth a read. He's probably right that the Court, with or without Amy Coney Barr...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Public-Health Experts Agree (More or Less): Covid Shutdowns Aren’t the Way to Go

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Not, at least, for the looming “second wave.” Over the past week or two, articles have been popping up left and right with this message. Now...
Monday, October 12, 2020

Questions for Judge Amy Coney Barrett

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Over at The Commonwealth Fund , health-law prof and ACA expert extraordinaire  Tim Jost properly focuses not  on whether CJ Roberts got it r...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

78% of Americans Believe Abortion Should be Legal "To Some Extent": Gallup Poll

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For decades it seemed the numbers followed the "rules of 3's": 1/3 believed abortion should be legal, period; 1/3 believed it ...
Friday, October 09, 2020

Wall Street Journal: More Superb Reporting on The COVID Storm

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Catching up with the most recent installments in the WSJ's excellent series, "The Covid Storm." "Why Did Covid Overwhelm ...
Wednesday, October 07, 2020

Overturning the ACA Would Kick 12 Million Newly Enrolled Individuals Out of Medicaid: Kaiser Family Foundation Policy Paper

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The ACA permitted states to expand eligibility for Medicaid enrollment to 128% of the federal poverty line. Twelve million people enrolled a...
Tuesday, October 06, 2020

Political Interference with FDA and COVID-19 Vaccine

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The New York Times reports that the White House chief of staff and other "[t]op White House officials are blocking strict new federal...

Senate Report on Health Inequities and COVID-19

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It's a report from the Democratic staff of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee: "COVID-19 & ACHIEVING H...
Monday, October 05, 2020

Leave it to Trump to Say the Exact Wrong Thing

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   President Trump announced his intention to leave Walter Reed at 6:30 this evening. Okay, it is not the standard of care, but it's com...
Sunday, October 04, 2020

The Opposite of How Public Health is Supposed to Work

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The staff of the Congressional Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis has issued a report on The Trump Administration's Pattern of P...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

NY Times Op-Ed: Maybe Roe v. Wade Isn't Worth Fighting For Anymore

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UC-Hastings law professor Joan Williams writes in today's NY Times ("The Case for Accepting Defeat on Roe," 9/29/2020) one of...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

KFF Report on Trump's Health Care Record

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We can expect health care (and HC reform) to be a major policy focus of the fall presidential campaign. The president's record is long a...
Friday, September 11, 2020

The Case for the Saliva-Based Antibody Test, Rather than PCR Test, to Reopen Society Safely

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Co-authors A. David Paltiel & Rochelle P. Walensky write in today's Health Affairs blog that we shouldn't be put off by the 30%...

The Latest from The Atlantic's Ed Yong on Where We Are Headed with COVID-19

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Yong is quite possibly the best journalist covering the pandemic beat -- knowledgeable about the science, perceptive in spotting trends. His...

A Look at the Top-Down Management of the Coronavirus by Gov. Cuomo: WSJ's Series

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The latest in the Wall Street Journal 's series, "The COVID Storm," is critical of Governor Cuomo's insistence on control...