How can Medicaid and the ACA help states in their response to COVID-19?
Read moreA Delicate Balance: Proposed Regulations May Upset the Tension Between Accessibility and Privacy of Health Information
This piece is part of a blog symposium featuring commentary from participants in the Center for Health Policy and Law’s annual conference, Promises and Perils of Emerging Health Innovations, held on April 11-12, 2019 at Northeastern University School of Law. The symposium was originally published on the Northeastern University Law Review Online Forum.
Read moreMedical Deferred Action Program Still Faces Unclear Future
The future of medical deferred action is still unclear.
Read moreMedicare-for-All wouldn’t be Medicare if it eliminated private insurance
Should Medicare-for-All replace private insurance?
The question is central to health reform debates among Democratic presidential candidates, but it presents a fundamental contradiction. If Medicare-for-All were to eliminate private coverage, it wouldn’t truly be Medicare as we know it, which has made room for private insurers from the start.
Read moreTrump returns Obamacare to the crosshairs and we are all in peril
The Trump administration has returned with renewed vigor to its war against the Affordable Care Act. If the attack succeeds, the damage would touch almost all of us.
Read moreThe Texas ACA ruling is an assault on logic
ACA opponents have a new approach to attacking the law – incoherence.
On Friday, a federal judge in Texas accepted the argument of 20 Republican attorney generals that the ACA’s mandate requiring everyone to have insurance is unconstitutional because the tax penalty enforcing it has been repealed. In other words, he struck it down because it no longer has any practical effect. Logic was in for a rough ride in this decision.
Read moreThe Health Impact Of The Proposed Public Charge Rules [from Health Affairs Blog]
On September 22, the Trump Administration announced it would soon publish in the Federal Register proposed new regulations defining when lawfully present immigrants should be considered a “public charge.” Although the draft regulations posted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were not as far-sweeping as a version that was leaked last winter, if promulgated they would still have a dramatic impact on public health and the health care system.
Read moreLegal Skills Through a Health Justice Lens: First-Year Northeastern Law Students Work Toward Health, Equity, and Justice for Two Oppressed Groups
We have a really special post today - George Consortium member Jason Potter describes his innovative work as a professor and also the work of his students here at Northeastern University School of Law. These first year law students studied legal skills through a lens of health justice, and turned health justice theory into practice by partnering with non-profit organizations and creating tangible guidance on issues of safe consumption facilities and barriers to health care for transgender individuals.
Read moreMedicaid Work Requirements Would Put Very Few People to Work [from philly.com]
The Trump administration recently agreed to let states get tough on Medicaid recipients who don’t work. Kentucky was the first to win approval of a plan to kick those who can work but don’t off the roles, and at least ten other states would like to do the same. Under these plans, in order to maintain coverage, able-bodied adults would have to prove that they are either employed in some form or are actively trying to be.
Read moreThreats to Medicaid and Community Integration for People with Disabilities
As we enter the second year of the Trump administration, Medicaid remains in the cross hairs of conservatives in Congress and the administration.
Read more