Health Reform and Public Health: Will Good Policies but Bad Politics Combine to Produce Bad Policy?
The enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was an incomplete victory and will remain so even… Continue reading →
The enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was an incomplete victory and will remain so even… Continue reading →
On March 23, 2010, the United States took a giant step toward achieving universal health care, an elusive goal it… Continue reading →
The most serious problem with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is not its contents but its packaging.… Continue reading →
Comparative effectiveness research (CER) stands out as the intriguing wild card of health care reform. CER compares competing treatments against… Continue reading →
The fraud-on-the-market class action no longer enjoys much academic support. The justifications traditionally advanced by its defenders—compensation for out-of-pocket loss… Continue reading →
The Affordable Care Act embodies a new social contract of health care solidarity through private ownership, markets, choice, and individual… Continue reading →
Few words play a more central role in modern constitutional law without appearing in the Constitution than “dignity.” The term… Continue reading →
People who are politically “conservative” or “libertarian” in the way those terms are often deployed in contemporary American public discourse… Continue reading →
The U.S. Supreme Court—thanks to various statutes passed by Congress beginning in 1891 and culminating in 1988—currently enjoys nearly unfettered… Continue reading →
Research over the past three decades has demonstrated that population health is shaped powerfully by “[t]he contexts in which people… Continue reading →