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.
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A summary of the article “Practicing What We Preach – Ending Physician Health Program Bans on Opioid-Agonist Therapy”, written by Leo Beletsky, Sarah E. Wakeman, and Kevin Fiscella.
Read moreGlobal Perspective: How Chile's Healthcare System Addresses Substance Use Disorder
Perhaps the US can learn from Chile’s pipeline-style approach between different levels of services for SUD treatment to create a more efficient and easily navigable system for patients.
Read moreThe big winner in Trump’s newest immigration policies: the flu
If you have been rooting for a widespread and virulent flu epidemic this winter, several of the administration’s new immigration policies should give you reason to cheer.
Read moreMedical Deferred Action Program Still Faces Unclear Future
The future of medical deferred action is still unclear.
Read moreThe Trump Administration’s New Public Charge Rule: Implications For Health Care & Public Health [from Health Affairs Blog]
Although recent discussions about the Trump Administration’s immigration policies have focused on the treatment of undocumented migrants and asylum-seekers at the border and in detention, the Administration has also sought to curtail legal immigration and make conditions more onerous for non-citizens who are lawfully present. The most recent example of these restrictive efforts is the long-anticipated public charge rule, which was published in the Federal Register by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on August 14. Unless halted by litigation, the rule will take effect on October 15, creating punishing new challenges for immigrant patients and their health care providers.
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 moreChanges to the Health Care Rights Law: proposed rule factsheet
Among other changes, the proposed rule would eliminate the previous definition of “on the basis of sex,” so gender identity and pregnancy termination would no longer be covered in the anti-discrimination rule.
Read moreCALL FOR PAPERS: Northeastern University School of Law - 2020 Health Law Conference
In conjunction with its 2020 Annual Health Law Conference, and in celebration of the career of Professor Richard A. Daynard, who is widely known for his pioneering work on public health litigation and tobacco control, the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law seeks abstracts for papers discussing one or more of the myriad issues raised by affirmative public health litigation. Papers may look at the efficacy of such litigation (in one or more domains), the barriers such litigation face, critiques of such litigation, and/or possible reforms.
Read moreNew York's newly strengthened vaccine mandate protects all of us
Last week, New York took an important step to increase those numbers by repealing a religious exception to its vaccine mandate for schoolchildren.
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