Wednesday, June 18, 2025

SCOTUS Upholds Tennessee's Prohibition Against Transgender Treatments for Minors

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This morning the Court handed down its decision in United States v. Skrmetti, No. 23-477  by a vote of 6-3 along entirely predictable politi...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Health law issues at the Supreme Court

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There's a handful of cases before SCOTUS that have been argued and, with only a couple of weeks left in the Term, are still awaiting dec...
Monday, June 16, 2025

New VA Rules Allow Denials of Treatment Based on Political Party Affiliation, Marital Status

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It sounds like a headline from The Onion , but it appears to be real. As reported by the Latin Times and others (cited below), "The VA...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

"Four Ways Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Undermine Access to Obamacare"

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The nonpartisan Kasier Family Foundation (KFF) News service highlights some of the changes that won House approval and await consideration i...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

"Live Free. Kids Die?"

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That's the title of a blog post from The Boston Globe . Here's the entry: Live free, kids die? The rate of childhood firearm fatalit...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

New Article on Regulation of Abortion and Federal/State Divide

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My colleagues, Profs. Joanna Grossman and Nathan Cortez, have published an important article: "Who Regulates Abortion Now?," 110 I...
Tuesday, May 06, 2025

LGBTQ+ in the Supreme Court: Today's Order

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Much will be made in the press of today's brief, unsigned order (to which Justices Sotomayo, Kagan, and Jackson dissented without opinio...
Friday, May 02, 2025

Krugman: MAGA's War on Science

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My last final exam is finally ready for prime time (Mon., May 5, at 1:30: Legislation and Regulation, a required 1L course; I wish my studen...
Monday, February 03, 2025

I Really Didn't Plan to Post Anything Until My Next Sabbatical, But It's Time to Get Real (Part II)

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The new administration is systematically undoing years and decades of support for the sorts of health- and medicine-related web posts and pu...
Sunday, February 02, 2025

I Really Didn't Plan to Post Anything Until My Next Sabbatical, But It's Time to Get Real (Part I)

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A niece of a retired law-school colleague is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCLA Medical School. She reposted a message from ...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Rural Health Care and the Tenuous Connection to Urban Tertiary Care Centers

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Today's  on-line post  (possibly free, at least for awhile) from the New England Journal of Medicine is by a physician in the Northern ...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Latest Report on National Health-Related Spending in 2023

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From Health Affairs  on-line today : In an ahead-of-print article published [Dec. 18], Anne B. Martin and colleagues at the Centers for Med...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Bird Flu: It May Be Worse Than We Suspect

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The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) just published a report on the bird flu with a pretty scary title: "How America Lost Control of the...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

SCOTUS Adds Medicaid Exclusion of Planned Parenthood to its Docket

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Add another case to my SCOTUS "roundup" ( Dec. 1 ). SCOTUSBlog notes that the Supreme Court has granted review of the 4th Circuit...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Two-week nationwide law enforcement action produces criminal charges for submission of over $2.75 billion in alleged false billings

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The announcement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for Montana was pretty bland: "Whitefish doctor sentenced for defrauding Medicare...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

FTC Withdraws 2000 Antitrust Guidelines for Collaborations Among Competitors

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On Dec. 11, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division (DOJ) jointly announced the withdrawal of the Antit...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

77 Nobel Laureates Oppose RFKJr's Nomination to Head DHHS

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For the reportedly first time ever, 77 Nobel Prize Laureates have written a letter  (also: here ) to the members of the U.S. Senate in whic...
Saturday, December 07, 2024

HHS OIG and DOJ Publish 2023 Report on Fraud and Abuse Enforcement

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Unlike the proposed, scammy Department of Government Efficiency, whose billionaire leaders seem focused on slashing budgets and trimming enf...