Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Maternal Mortality: Elections Have Consequences

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 From The Commonwealth Fund ( July 29, 2025 ):  The United States has long had the worst maternal mortality rate of any wealthy nation — a r...
Saturday, July 26, 2025

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Now You See It, Soon You Won't

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At the end of June, in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc. , the Supreme Court reversed District Judge Reed O'Connor and the Fifth Ci...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Organ Donation After Cardiac Death

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There was a time when organ donation after cardiac (or circulatory) death ("DCD") was controversial. Then it wasn't (at least ...
Monday, July 14, 2025

The Administration's Three-Pronged Assault on Health Care

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I wish I could offer a link to an outstanding article in the current NY Review of Books  entitled "The Dismantling of American Health ...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Crazier . . . .

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This post has nothing to do with health law, but it is in keeping with the subjects HealthLawBlog identifies as within its purview: Constitu...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

The Outrageous Upside-Down World of the Department of Justice

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A Salt Lake City plastic surgeon -- Kirk Moore -- was indicted in 2023 for a COVID scam. I'll let the U.S. Attorney's announcement ...
Friday, July 11, 2025

New England Journal of Medicine: How the Supreme Court Got the Tennessee Transgender Case Wrong

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In an analysis piece  posted on the NEJM  website, law professor Scott Skinner-Thompson criticizes SCOTUS's recent opinion in the Skrmet...
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

U.S. Measles Cases Reach 33-Year High

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Twenty-five years after measles was eliminated in this country, there have been 1,288 cases this year (as of July 8), according to the CDC ....
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Larry Summers: One Big Beautiful Bill Act* is Shameful

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In today's NY Times , economist Larry Summers shreds the new law * not  for the horrible macroeconomic effects (an exercise he has alrea...
Tuesday, July 01, 2025

DOJ's Annual Health Care Fraud Takedown Nets Record Charges

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On June 30, DOJ announced the results of this year's Takedown: The Justice Department today announced the results of its 2025 National ...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Tracking the Changes in the Senate's Reconciliation Bill (Updated Daily)

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The Kaiser Family Foundation's website is an invaluable resource for anyone trying to figure out what's at stake as the Senate stru...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

The Coming Health Care Apocalypse

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Over on Substack,* Nobel laureate Paul Krugman takes a hard look at the impact of the Big Bad Budget Bill that's taking shape in the Se...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Trump Administration v. Rule of Law Redux

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Trump's Department of Justice sued all 14 trial judges who serve in the District of Maryland. DOJ contests a standing order issued by th...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

The Supreme Court's "Disastrous Decision"

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HealthLawBlog  tracks decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that have some bearing on the cost, quality, access, and equitable distribution of...
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...