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Why Defeating the Individual Mandate isn’t Much of a Victory for Individual Freedom by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Dear Americans: A recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation suggests that 51% of us believe the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) minimum coverage requirement — its “individual ... Read on »

Risky Business by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Of course, all the usual caveats apply–oral argument can be misleading, it is hard to know exactly what the justices are thinking, etc., etc. That said, most everyone seems ... Read on »

No mandate? OK, but be prepared to pay by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy [Ed. Note: This commentary was published in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on Wednesday, 3/28, by long time contributor to HRW, Thomas "Tim" Greaney, Chester A. Myers Professo ... Read on »

Why Can’t We Analogize the Mandate? by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Legal arguments often rely on analogies. Indeed, during the first year of law school, students learn to analogize and distinguish cases. “This case is like this one, not t ... Read on »

Day 2, The Individual Mandate: Justice Kennedy Swings Again by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy More than a few prognosticators have posited a 5-4 split (either way) after reading the tea leaves of oral argument before the Supreme Court on the Individual Mandate today. ... Read on »

Supreme Court ACA Hearings, Day One by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy [Ed. Note: This post is from Professor Bradley Joondeph's aca litigation blog. It's as good of a quick analysis of the day's Supreme Court argument as you'll find. Below the ... Read on »

U.S. Supreme Court Health Reform Litigation, the Individual Mandate, Anti-Injunction Act, Commerce... by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy We are literally only days away from the Supreme Court oral arguments in the ACA litigation (or the Health Reform case as it is popularly known) and as such, we thought it w ... Read on »

Is a For-Profit Structure a Viable Alternative for Catholic Health Care Ministry? by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy On March 26-27, Seton Hall Law will be home to a two day Symposium entitled “Is a For-Profit Structure a Viable Alternative for Catholic Health Care Ministry?” Funded throug ... Read on »

Kate Greenwood on American Law Journal TV Regarding Off-Label Promotion by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In Case you missed it: Research Fellow & Lecturer in Law, Seton Hall Law’s Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, Kate Greenwood, on American Law Journal TV regard ... Read on »

Ruane v. Levy: Both Sides of the Bar Meet in Health Care Fraud and Abuse Class by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy [Ed note: This article was authored by John Barry '13, a second year law student pursuing a Health Care Concentration at Seton Hall Law. A native of New York, he graduated ... Read on »

Trip Report, Sierra Leone, Tom Johnson, Jr., Africa Surgery, Inc. (ASI) by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy [Ed. note: I had the honor of meeting Tom Johnson a few years back, here at Seton Hall Law when I was still a student and he held a fundraiser through the school. Africa ... Read on »

Must-Read Articles on Drug Shortages by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In February, Health Affairs featured Duff Wilson’s article on “Deepening Drug Shortages.” As Wilson notes, “the number of reported drug shortages in the United States nearl ... Read on »

A New Insurance Product: Responsible Corporate Officer Defense Insurance by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Unsurprisingly, the market has responded to the new risks corporate officials in the life sciences industry face if their companies commit crimes that threaten the public’s ... Read on »

Of Princes, Paupers, and Physicians by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Why is US health care so expensive? We’ve long been told: “it’s the prices, stupid.” There is more confirmation here, as Ezra Klein explains why an MRI costs $1,080 in Amer ... Read on »

Making Health and Disability Law More Responsive to Lived Experience by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Featuring Visiting Scholar, Ani Satz, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Law, Rollins School of Public Health, and Center for Ethics, this lecture will address ... Read on »

AT&T and Intuitive Health Team Up to Bring Down Health Costs and Reduce Hospital Readmissions by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The frequency spectrum of a signal from an AM radio station on the medium wave band. The vertical coordinate is time, the horizo ... Read on »

Podcast: Distinguished Guest Practitioner Gian Luca Burci Lectures on the New Field of... by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy On Wednesday, February 22, 2012, Distinguished Guest Practitioner Gian Luca Burci , the General Counsel to the World Health Organizati ... Read on »

An Uncertain Future for ICD-10 by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy On February 14, 2012, Marilyn Tavenner, the acting Administrator of CMS, told reporters that CMS will “re-examine the timeframe” of th ... Read on »

The New York Times Hasn’t Scratched the Surface: For-Profit Catholic Healthcare by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy President Obama has begun the process for healthcare reform by improving access through insurance reform, but achievement of his aspir ... Read on »

A Broader Perspective on Catholic Healthcare by HealthReformWatch.com Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A February 21, 2012 New York Times article entitled “Catholic Hospitals Expand, Religious Strings Attached” addresses the challenges t ... Read on »

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