Trump Administration Further Restricts Coverage of Reproductive Health Care

By Rebecca Reingold | Leave a Comment

This post was written by Emily Fruchterman, Research Assistant at the O’Neill Institute, and Rebecca Reingold. The day after the midterm elections, the Trump administration released a series of new rules likely to have a troubling impact on American women’s access to reproductive care. The first two are final rules that significantly expand the ability of employers […]

Posted in uncategorized ; Tagged: abortion, ACA, birth control, contraception, health insurance, reproductive health, Reproductive Rights, women's health.

03.28.17

Obamacare Is the Law of the Land… Now What?

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This post was written by Andrew Hennessy-Strahs, a 2017 Global Health Law LL.M. Candidate at Georgetown University Law Center. Any questions or comments can be directed to adh75@georgetown.edu. “Obamacare is the law of the land,” spoke Paul Ryan late Friday afternoon, following the collapse of support for his proposed legislation, the American Health Care Act […]

Posted in Health reform ; Tagged: ACA, AHCA, Obamacare.

03.10.17

COLLATERAL DAMAGE: REPEALING OBAMACARE WOULD ELIMINATE FUNDING FOR CRITICAL CDC PREVENTION PROGRAMS

By Sonia Canzater | Leave a Comment

There are many reasons for concern regarding the repercussions of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Much of the focus as of late has been on the effect repeal would have on Medicaid recipients and how the cost of health insurance would change under a new plan. However, there are […]

Posted in Health reform, Healthcare, uncategorized ; Tagged: ACA, Affordable Care Act, CDC, Obamacare, repeal.

01.06.16

HIV and Medical Bills: The Importance of the Affordable Care Act and the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program

By Sean Bland | Leave a Comment

Yesterday, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times reported on a recent survey of the problems Americans face with medical bills. The survey, conducted by The New York Times and the Kaiser Family Foundation, shows a cascade of financial troubles due to many individuals and households paying substantial medical bills. In the survey, 20 percent […]

Posted in Healthcare ; Tagged: ACA, access to health care, AIDS, HIV, HIV/AIDS, National Healthcare.

06.25.15

King v. Burwell: An Exercise in Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing

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This post was written by Tim Westmoreland, a Professor from Practice at Georgetown Law. His courses include legislation and statutory interpretation, health law, and the federal budget process. Everyone within reach of an electronic device already knows that the Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA) again today. Tax subsidies can continue to […]

Posted in Health reform, Healthcare ; Tagged: ACA, health reform, King v. Burwell, Obamacare, SCOTUS, US Supreme Court.

06.03.15

Tim Westmoreland on King v. Burwell – #AskAGUProf

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The U.S. Supreme Court will issue its ruling soon on King v. Burwell, a case that questions whether it is legal for the federal government to provide subsidies to states that rely on federal health exchanges to help low- and middle-income people afford mandated health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In the case, […]

Posted in Health reform, Healthcare, uncategorized ; Tagged: ACA, AskAGUProf, Georgetown Law, Georgetown University, health reform, King v. Burwell, Obamacare.

07.03.14

All Religious Beliefs are Equal, But Some Religious Beliefs are More Equal than Others

By Brian Honermann | Leave a Comment

Last Monday, five justices of the Supreme Court handed down a decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores. The basic outline of the case was already briefly discussed on this blog as well as in many many other locations. In short, Hobby Lobby (and others) sued Health and Human Services (HHS) over the contraception mandate […]

Posted in Health reform, Healthcare ; Tagged: ACA, contraceptives, Hobby Lobby, Supreme Court.

06.30.14

The Supreme Court Deals a Blow to the Affordable Care Act and Access to Contraceptives

By Brian Honermann | Leave a Comment

This morning the Supreme Court handed down its most anticipated decision of the term.Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Hobby Lobby Stores, et al. dealt with the application of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to the contraceptive mandate established under regulations promulgated by HHS under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). […]

Posted in Health reform, Healthcare ; Tagged: ACA, Obamacare.

05.02.14

The ACA: Towards “A State of Complete Physical, Mental and Social Well-Being”

By Ana S. Ayala | Leave a Comment

“Advancing the health of our nations is a fundamental commitment we make to all our people,” said U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sibelius in representation of the Americas before the World Health Assembly in May 2013. She then added, “[a]s President Obama recently reminded us, access to health care is ‘not some […]

Posted in Global Health, Health reform, Healthcare, Human Rights, WHO ; Tagged: ACA, access to health care, CESCR, global health, health and human rights, health care, health coverage, health equity, health reform, health services, HHS, ICESCR, Obama, Obamacare, poverty, president obama, public health, right to health, Sebelius, United States, World Health Assembly, World Health Organization.

04.17.14

Employer-Based Health Care – All Cons, No Pros

By Brian Honermann | Leave a Comment

Since the beginning of the debates around the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there’s been a relatively muted on-going conversation about the value of the employer based health insurance model. It has, however, never really come to the fore as the ACA never seriously engaged with the idea of canning the whole system and starting fresh […]

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Kavanagh, Matthew. “Good Health Supports Good Governance.” Foreign Policy, May 25, 2019. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/24/good-health-supports-good-governance/.

Gostin, Lawrence, Ibrahim Abubakar, Ranieri Guerra, Sabina F Rasid, Eric Friedman, and Zsuzanna Jakab. “WHO Takes Action to Promote the Health of Refugees and Migrants.” The Lancet 393, no. 10185 (May 18, 2019). https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)31051-7/fulltext.

Gostin, Lawrence. “The ‘Conscience’ Rule: How Will It Affect Patients’ Access to Health Services?” News@JAMA, May 15, 2019. https://newsatjama.jama.com/2019/05/15/jama-forum-the-conscience-rule-how-will-it-affect-patients-access-to-health-services/.

Friedman, Eric A. “How to Achieve Health Equity.” Project Syndicate, March 6, 2019. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/health-equity-sdgs-programs-of-action-by-eric-a-friedman-2019-03.

Kavanagh, Matthew, and Lixue Chen. “Governance and Health Aid from the Global Fund: Effects Beyond Fighting Disease.” Annals of Global Health 85, no. 1 (May 12, 2019): 69. http://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2505.

Gostin, Lawrence O., John T. Monahan, Jenny Kaldor, Mary DeBartolo, Eric A Friedman, Susan C Kim, Ala Alwan, et al. “The Legal Determinants of Health: Harnessing the Power of Law for Global Health and Sustainable Development.” The Lancet, April 30, 2019. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(19)30233-8.pdf#%20.

Friedman, Eric A. “How to Achieve Health Equity.” Project Syndicate, March 6, 2019. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/health-equity-sdgs-programs-of-action-by-eric-a-friedman-2019-03.

Gostin, Lawrence O. “A National Action Plan to Eliminate Vaccine Preventable Childhood Diseases.” The Milbank Quarterly, May 6, 2019. https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/a-national-action-plan-to-eliminate-vaccine-preventable-childhood-diseases/?utm_content=buffer64e0e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer.

Lindblom, Eric. “If E-Cigarettes Are a Top Priority, Why Hasn’t the FDA Issued a New Rule?” The Washington Post, March 24, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-e-cigarettes-are-a-top-priority-why-hasnt-the-fda-issued-a-new-rule/2019/03/24/a5efdb58-4cc2-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html?utm_term=.0bec677624ac.

Gostin, Lawrence, and James G. Hodge Jr. “Potential Discrimination in NYC’s Measles Public Health Emergency Order.” The Hill, April 11, 2019. https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/438301-potential-discrimination-in-nycs-measles-public-health-emergency-order.

Lindblom, Eric. “If E-Cigarettes Are a Top Priority, Why Hasn’t the FDA Issued a New Rule?” The Washington Post, March 24, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-e-cigarettes-are-a-top-priority-why-hasnt-the-fda-issued-a-new-rule/2019/03/24/a5efdb58-4cc2-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html?utm_term=.30de292acb0f.

Crowley, Jeffrey S. “Trump’s HIV Plan Is Bold. But Can He Back It Up?” Roll Call, March 12, 2019. https://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/trump-hiv-aids-medicare-aca.

Friedman, Eric A. “How to Achieve Health Equity.” Project Syndicate, March 6, 2019. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/health-equity-sdgs-programs-of-action-by-eric-a-friedman-2019-03.

LaBelle, Regina, and Jeffrey S Crowley. “Building Bridges for Action: Ending the HIV and Opioid Epidemic.” The HIll, February 24, 2019. https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/431356-building-bridges-for-action-ending-the-hiv-and-opioid-epidemic.

Gostin, Lawrence O., and Eric A. Friedman. “The Lancet Commission on Global Health Law: How Law Can Advance the Right To Health.” Health Affairs, May 1, 2019. https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20190430.743234/full/.

Gostin, Lawrence O., Scott C. Ratzan, and Barry R. Bloom. “Safe Vaccinations for a Healthy Nation US Vaccine Coverage Through Law, Science, and Communication.” JAMA, April 19, 2019. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2731738.

Crowley, Jeffrey S., and Sean E. Bland. “Bolstering Latinx Gay and Bisexual Men: To Promote Health and Reduce HIV Transmission,” March 2019. http://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/media/Latinx-Gay-and-Bi-Men.pdf.

Stephens, John. “Tuberculosis in Prison’s: A People’s Introduction to the Law,” January 2019. http://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/media/TB-in-Prisons-Web.pdf.

Stephens, John, Bella Hwang, Amir Shroufi, Tinne Gils, Sarah Jane Steele, Anna Grimsud, Andrew Boulle, et al. “Stock-Outs of Antiretroviral and Tuberculosis Medicines in South Africa: A National Cross-Sectional Survey.” PLOS One, March 12, 2019. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0212405.

Gostin, Lawrence O, Neil R Sircar, and Eric Friedman. “Fighting Novel Diseases amidst Humanitarian Crises.” Hastings Center Report 49, no. 1 (February 21, 2019): 6–9. https://doi.org/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hast.970.

Lindblom, Eric N., Andrea C. Johnson, Tiffany Gray, George Luta, and Darren Mays. “How and Why Consumers View ‘Little Cigars’ as Legally-Defined Cigarettes.” Tobacco Regulatory Science 5, no. 2 (March 2019): 124–34. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/trsg/trs/2019/00000005/00000002/art00004.

Gostin, Lawrence, Alexandra Phelan, Alex Godwin Coutinho, Mark Eccleston-Turner, Ngozi Erondu, Oyebanji Filani, Tom Inglesby, et al. “Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Time to Sound a Global Alert?” The Lancet, February 4, 2019. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30243-0.

Crowley, Jeffrey S, and Sean Bland. “Big Ideas: State and Local ‘End the Epidemic’ Plans Can Drive HIV Progress,” n.d. http://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/media/ONL_Gilead_B1_Zero_P5.pdf.

Crowley, Jeffery S, and Sean Bland. “Big Ideas: Leveraging the Ryan White Program to Make Rapid Start of HIV Therapy Standard Practice,” December 2018. http://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/media/ONL_Gilead_B2_Rapid_P4.pdf.

Crowley, Jeffrey S, and Sean Bland. “Quick Take: HIV Prevention in the United States,” January 2019. http://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/media/HIV-Prevention-Quick-Take-1.pdf.

Crowley, Jeffrey S, and Sean Bland. “Quick Take: The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program,” January 2019. http://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/media/Ryan-White-Quick-Take.pdf.

Gostin, Lawrence O. “Living, Aging, and Dying in Healthy and Just Societies: Life Lessons From My Father.” The Milbank Quaterly, January 2019. https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/living-aging-and-dying-in-healthy-and-just-societies-life-lessons-from-my-father/.

Gostin, Lawrence O. “The ‘Great’ Generation and a Not-So-Great Health System.” The Milbank Quarterly 95 (December 2017): 698–701. https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/great-generation-not-great-health-system/.

Gostin, Lawrence ). “A Beautiful Life in a Vibrant Yet Vulnerable City.” The Milbank Quaterly Volume 96 (April 2018): 239–43. https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/beautiful-life-vibrant-yet-vulnerable-city/.

Lindblom, Eric N. “Additional Comments Submitted to FDA Re Draft Concept Paper: Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products After Implementation of a Good and Drug Administration Product Standard,” June 22, 2018. https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=FDA-2018-N-0529-0041.

Kavanagh, Matthew, and Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola. “Policy Change and Micro-Politics in Global Health Aid: HIV in South Africa.” Health Policy and Planning, January 9, 2019. https://academic.oup.com/heapol/advance-article/doi/10.1093/heapol/czy103/5281233#.

Lindblom, Eric N. “How FDA Could Use Its Existing Authorities to Make State Legalization of Cannabis More Safe and Effective.” Food & Drug Law Journal, April 2019.

Lindblom, Eric N. “Should FDA Try to Move Smokers to E-Cigarettes and Other Less-Harmful Tobacco Products and, If So, How?” Food & Drug Law Journal 73, no. 2 (May 31, 2018): 276–318. http://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/media/Lindblom-Should-FDA-Move-Smokers-to-E-Cigs-FDLJ.pdf.

Berman, Micah L., Justin Bryon, Natalie Hemmerich, Eric N. Linblom, Allison J. Lazard, Ellen Peters, and Noel T. Brewer. “Communicating Tobacco Product Information to the Public.” Food & Drug Law Journal 72, no. 3 (February 1, 2018): 386–405. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5794026/.

Mays, Darren, Andrea Villanti, Raymond S. Niaura, Eric N. Lindblom, and Andrew A. Strasser. “The Effects of Varying Electronic Cigarette Warning Label Design Features on Attention, Recall, and Product Perceptions Among Young Adults.” Journal of Health Communications, December 13, 2017. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10410236.2017.1372050.

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