Asking the Right Question about Football
By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at HealthLawProf Blog and orentlicher.tumblr.com.] In his New York Times op-ed today, former Denver tight end Nate Jackson explains why the NFL should prefer that its...
View ArticleEgg Freezing and Women’s Decision Making
By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at Health Law Profs and PrawfsBlawg.] The announcement by Apple and Facebook that they will cover the costs of egg freezing predictably provoked some...
View ArticleThe Ebola “Czar”
By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at Health Law Profs and PrawfsBlawg.] In the wake of Craig Spencer’s decision to go bowling in Brooklyn, governors of three major states—Illinois, New Jersey, and New...
View ArticleEbola: A Problem of Poverty Rather than Health
By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at Health Law Profs and PrawfsBlawg.] Undoubtedly, the death toll in West Africa would be much lower if Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone had better health care...
View ArticleSloppy Thinking about Genetic Therapy
By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at Health Law Profs blog] As NPR reported this morning, researchers in England may soon use genetic therapy to treat diseases that result from defects in...
View ArticleHealth and Wealth
By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at Health Law Profs blog] A number of studies have suggested that education, wealth, and other socioeconomic factors are more important than health care in promoting...
View ArticleCost Containment and Cost Shifting
By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at Health Law Profs.] With Harvard professors protesting their increased responsibility for health care costs, we are seeing just the most visible aspect of the...
View ArticleHealth Care Policy by Common Sense?
By David Orentlicher [Cross-posted at HealthLawProfs] In announcing the federal government’s approval of Indiana’s Medicaid expansion, Governor Mike Pence invoked common sense in defending his...
View ArticleReplacing the Affordable Care Act?
By David Orentlicher [cross-posted at HealthLawProfs blog] With the future of the Affordable Care Act in doubt after last week’s hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, Republican lawmakers are busily...
View ArticleFrozen Embryo Disputes and Unwanted Parenthood
By David Orentlicher [cross-posted at HealthLawProfs blog and orentlicher.tumblr.com] For the second time, a state court of appeals has given a woman permission to use frozen embryos over the...
View ArticleAffordable Care, the Supreme Court, and the Wisdom of Crowds
By David Orentlicher [cross-posted at HealthLawProfs blog and orentlicher.tumblr.com] How will the Supreme Court rule on the challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies that help millions of...
View ArticleHobby Lobby Fall Out
By David Orentlicher [cross-posted at HealthLawProfs blog and orentlicher.tumblr.com] For those who feared that the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision would open the door for employers to block...
View ArticlePayments to Egg “Donors”
By David Orentlicher [cross-posted at HealthLawProfs blog and orentlicher.tumblr.com] Interesting article in today’s Wall Street Journal about a lawsuit over limits on payments by fertility clinics to...
View ArticleAbortion and the Fetal Personhood Fallacy
By David Orentlicher [cross-posted at HealthLawProfs blog and orentlicher.tumblr.com] Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, and other politicians continue to assert a common fallacy about abortion—because human...
View ArticleIs Mike Pence’s Medicaid Expansion a Blueprint for Donald Trump’s Health Care...
By David Orentlicher [cross-posted at orentlicher.tumblr.com] Donald Trump’s pledge to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act has looked much more like a plan for repeal than a plan to replace,...
View ArticleHow the GOP Misread Public Anger over Obamacare
By David Orentlicher In today’s New York Times, Kate Zernike reports on the lack of excitement among conservative activists for the Republican health care legislation. As Zernike observes, “President...
View ArticlePromoting Health, Not Just Health Care
By David Orentlicher Once again this past Thursday, the Democratic presidential candidate debate began on the topic of health care reform, and moderator George Stephanopoulos quickly steered the...
View ArticleSustaining the Promise of Universal Access
By David Orentlicher Should the United States achieve universal access to health care by adopting a single-payer, Medicare-for-All kind of system? Or should we build on the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
View ArticleMedicare for the Poor
By David Orentlicher While Medicare-for-All has proved controversial, every Democratic presidential candidate should embrace one of its key elements—folding the Medicaid program into the Medicare...
View ArticleAppeals Court Overturns FDA’s Partial Ban on Shock Devices: Analysis of Ruling
By David Orentlicher In its regulation of medical devices, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may ban devices that pose “an unreasonable and substantial risk of illness or injury.” But earlier...
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