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 →
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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 →
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Of Stars and Proper Alignment: Scanning the Heavens for the Future of Health care Reform
On March 23, 2010, the United States took a giant step toward achieving universal health care, an elusive goal it… Continue reading →
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Brand New Law! The Need to Market Health Care Reform
The most serious problem with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is not its contents but its packaging.… Continue reading →
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Health Care Reform’s Wild Card: The Uncertain Effectiveness of Comparative Effectiveness Research
Comparative effectiveness research (CER) stands out as the intriguing wild card of health care reform. CER compares competing treatments against… Continue reading →