Thursday, December 31, 2020

Ten Lessons from Health Affairs

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The esteemed health-policy journal Health Affairs  has published its list of "Ten Lessons from COVID-19  Research Published in Health A...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

What to Expect in Year Two of the Pandemic

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Ed Yong is widely regarded as the best journalist on the COVID-19 beat, and he's just published in The Atlantic ( 1/29/2 1  (free) ) his...

National Academy of Medicine Webinar on Crisis Standards of Care

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This looks like a good lineup of panelists asking (and I hope answering) the right questions: As hospitals and other providers experience si...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Lawrence Wright in The New Yorker: For now, the definitive history of the novel coronavirus in 2020

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The newest print edition of The New Yorker (Jan. 4 & 11) features "The Plague Year, " a 40-page article by one of the best wri...
Sunday, December 27, 2020

Pres. Obama's Inside Story on the Rocky Road to Obamacare

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Here's a story worth reading: how the U.S. got -- if not universal health care -- something close after a century of trying and failing....
Monday, December 21, 2020

Top 10 Health Stories of 2020: Nearly All Are Healthlaw-Related

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 From The Commonwealth Fund (more details are here ): "COVID-19 hits the United States." The greatest public health (and public he...
Friday, December 11, 2020

More on COVID-19 and Employer Mandates and more and more . . .

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  Morrison & Foerster LLP issued a report on Wednesday, 12/9/20, based on a survey of in-house legal professionals around the world. Th...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

COVID-19 Vaccine and Employer Mandates

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Can employers require their employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus In an "employment-at-will" state, almost certainly ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Early Indications Are Leaning Toward a Favorable SCOTUS Decision for the ACA

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One thing I learned as a Constitutional Law prof many years ago is to not give full faith and credit to the comments and questions of Justic...
Wednesday, November 04, 2020

Everything You Wanted to Know About Liver and Lung Transplant Allocation Policies But Were Afraid to Ask

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The Government Accountability Office has issued a detailed letter report on recent changes to the allocation policies for these two organs....
Tuesday, November 03, 2020

President Maligns Physicians and Hospitals in Midst of Third Wave

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Out on the campaign trail last week, Pres. Trump had this to say: “[O]ur doctors get more money if somebody dies from covid.”  “You know tha...
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 ...