Thursday, May 26, 2022

Sherry Colb on Samuel Alito's Draft Opinion in Dobbs

›
Sherry Colb's essay at Dorf on Law  makes a powerful case against the theocratic basis for overruling Roe . It is well worth reading.
Thursday, May 05, 2022

The End of Roe (and Privacy as Well)

›
So much has already been written on the leaked draft majority opinion by Justice Alito in the Mississippi abortion case ,  it's time to...
Friday, March 04, 2022

The Intentional Cruelty of the Texas Legislature

›
A "pincer movement" is defined as "a military maneuver in which forces simultaneously attack both flanks (sides) of an enemy ...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Excellent analysis of SB 8 online at JAMA

›
The litigation history of Texas's abortion statute ( SB 8 ) is a sorry tangle of "hot potato" from federal courts to state sup...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

"It’s time for Texas to abolish Confederate Heroes Day"

›
Yep. That's the title of an op-ed in today's Washington Post . That we have this "partial holiday" at all is contemptible....

Don't Deny COVID Care to the Unvaccinated

›
1. It's bad policy. 2. It's not feasible. 3. It's unethical. These are the messages from Ed Yong's latest piece in The Atlan...
Thursday, January 06, 2022

Advance Directives: 1. Do They Work? 2. Is There Something Better?

›
Answers: 1. Not particularly well, except in the few cases where they do. 2. Talking is an essential, and often overlooked, aspect of advanc...
Tuesday, December 07, 2021

Bad news for transgender kids: Genecis program is no more

›
A story in the Dallas Morning News (Dec. 6) by reporters Marin Wolf and Lauren McGaughy provides extremely useful details and context for t...
Wednesday, December 01, 2021

Texas and Mississippi Abortion Laws: A "Lack of Empathy and Hubris"

›
SCOTUS holds  oral argument this morning in the Mississippi case that involves a law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, and t...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Billions (and Chevron?) at Stake in SCOTUS's Medicaid Case

›
It's a health-law-heavy docket this year over at SCOTUS. Next up for oral argument (Nov. 29) is  Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation (N...
Saturday, November 06, 2021

SCOTUS Grants Cert. in Three Health Law Cases

›
From SCOTUSBlog (with additional cites and links): Ruan and Kahn In Ruan v. United States  (20-1410; opinion below ) and Kahn v. United Stat...
Monday, November 01, 2021

Vaccines and Religious Exemptions

›
Prof. Wendy Parmet had an excellent guest column in the NY Times on 10/31 concerning religious exemptions from vaccination mandates during ...
Sunday, October 24, 2021

How to Save a Quarter-Trillion Dollars a Year in Health Care (Hint: It's Not as Easy as It Sounds)

›
The consulting firm McKinsey & Co. has a new report ( full , executive summary ) that identifies the sorts of administrative simplificat...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Teenaged and pregnant in Texas after SB8

›
In yesterday's N.Y. Times,  columnist Michelle Goldberg has a powerful up-ed describing the situation created by SB 8 -- Texas's s...

Unvaccinated patients added $5.7 billion to June-August healthcare expenditures

›
It's not surprising, but it is still staggering. As reported by Health Affairs : "A surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations among people...
Tuesday, September 07, 2021

The latest surge: It's real and it was avoidable

›
Paul Krugman's N.Y. Times newsletter today ( not posted yet , but it should be soon) has two altogether unsurprising but very revealing...
Sunday, July 25, 2021

DFW's COVID-19 Hospitalizations Have Tripled in the Past Month

›
This is today's dispatch from Steve Love, the CEO of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council: We have 1,126 COVID-19 patients in our hosp...
Friday, July 16, 2021

Massive HHS settlements & judgments in 2020 for false and fraudulent claims

›
The gory details are contained in a report of the Inspector General released this month. Becker's Hospital CFO Report has a summary (em...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Atul Gawande Nominated for Global Health Role at USAID

›
Good news for fans of Atul Gawande (books: Amazon author's page ) who will be pleased to know Pres. Biden has nominated the author/surg...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

The High Costs of Non-Beneficial Treatments in the ICU

›
Thad Pope has a useful post on this subject. There are direct medical costs (estimated at $2,700/day (Ottawa study) to $4,000/day (UCLA stu...