Saturday, May 27, 2023

More on Consolidation within the Health Care Industry

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Fortune 's team of Maria Aspan and Erika Fry have focused their analytical lens on the growth of health care firms in their recent arti...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Merger Chaos at the FTC?

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If there's one indisputable legal and business trend in the health care industry over the past 10-20 years, it's the move toward gre...

Texas Chiropractic Board Requests AG Opinion

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This would be a good fact pattern for a  1L Legislation-Regulation final exam. The question posed by the Board in its request is "Whe...
Sunday, May 21, 2023

Hellacious Health Care Fraud of the Week (I)

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As with banks and bank robbers, health care is where the money is. And for some so-called health care providers, the temptation to rob, stea...
Friday, May 19, 2023

"Preauthorization" and why your insurer is out to get you

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I am not saying health insurers are evil. Or that their policies are evil. But their claims-handling practices are very often ill-advised, a...

ChatGPT Summary of Congressional Testimony on “Innovation and Patient Access”

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I'm re-posting the latest entry from Jason Shafrin's blog, "Healthcare Economist," for two reasons.  First , "innova...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

RBG on the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

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This was posted recently by a wonderful German attorney and former Bioethics student of mine, Christine Gärtner. It appears to be part of an...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Editors of New England Journal of Medicine Condemn SCOTUS's Decision to Overrule Roe

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The NEJM editorial summarizes the board's reasoning this way: By abolishing longstanding legal protections, the U.S. Supreme Court’s rev...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

Sherry Colb on Samuel Alito's Draft Opinion in Dobbs

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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)

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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

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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

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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"

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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

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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?

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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

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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"

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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

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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

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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

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