Subsidizing Fat: How the 2012 Farm Bill Can Address America’s Obesity Epidemic
On a bus in West Philadelphia, a woman feeds her baby an artificial orange beverage from his bottle. The drink… Continue reading →
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Regulating Patient Safety: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Patient injury is a predictable feature of health care, particularly in hospitals, in the United States and elsewhere. Since publication… Continue reading →
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Exempt Executives? Dollar General Store Managers’ Embattled Quest for Overtime Pay Under the Fair Labor Standards Act
Beginning in the early 1980s, and continuing for nearly three decades, federal circuit courts unanimously found retail store managers exempt… Continue reading →
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Restoring Health to Health Reform: Integrating Medicine and Public Health to Advance the Population’s Well-Being
It is hard to overstate the intense political and media attention given to health care. New medical discoveries and technologies… Continue reading →
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Commerce Clause Challenges to Health Care Reform
When Congress drafted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Democratic lawmakers and most legal scholars had good reason… Continue reading →
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Three Models of Health Insurance: The Conceptual Pluralism of The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act
What risks should health insurance mitigate? American health scholars, politicians, and the public at large answer this question ambivalently. This… Continue reading →
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Health Insurance Reform And Intimations Of Citizenship
Sometimes what is implied and inferred can be as important as what is stated. In this Article, I argue that… Continue reading →
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Convicts and Convictions: Some Lessons From Transportation for Health Reform
It wasn’t supposed to go this way. The Democrats had taken both houses of Congress in 2006 and the presidency… Continue reading →
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Reflections on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and the Implementation of the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act
One of the most common criticisms of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is that it constitutes a… Continue reading →
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The Freedom of Health
What would have happened if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)1 really had authorized government “death panels” that… Continue reading →