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Increasing Vaccination Rates Without Eliminating Nonmedical Exemptions, Hillel Y. Levin, Timothy D. Lytton
Increasing Vaccination Rates Without Eliminating Nonmedical Exemptions, Hillel Y. Levin, Timothy D. Lytton
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This essay on shifting states' incentives to reduce nonmedical exemptions while respecting the choice not to vaccinate, is based on a forthcoming article, A Model Law for Nonmedical Immunization Exemptions Using the Least Restrictive Means, coauthored by Daniel A. Salmon, Stacie Kershner, Timothy D. Lytton, Hillel Y. Levin, Claire Hannan, and Saad B. Omer.
Cms’ Proposed Changes To The Two-Midnight Rule: Partial Restoration Of Medical Judgment, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard
Cms’ Proposed Changes To The Two-Midnight Rule: Partial Restoration Of Medical Judgment, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard
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On July 1, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced proposed changes to the controversial Two-Midnight Rule. This payment rule clarifies the circumstances under which Medicare will consider a given hospital stay to be an inpatient service (and therefore reimbursable at a higher rate under Medicare Part A), versus an outpatient service (and therefore reimbursable at a lower rate under Part B). From the Health Affairs Blog, September 1, 2015.
On Health Status, Choice, And Immunity, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard
On Health Status, Choice, And Immunity, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard
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This article by Professor Elizabeth Weeks Leonard in JOTWELL on July 22, 2015, discusses discrimination on health status.
Quick Change Justice, Sonja R. West, Dahlia Lithwick
Quick Change Justice, Sonja R. West, Dahlia Lithwick
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The architecture of the U.S. Supreme Court Building is rife with turtles. There are turtles holding up the lampposts in the courtyard and turtles engraved in the stone decor. You can buy turtle coffee mugs at the gift shop. The turtle is said to represent the slow and deliberate pace of justice. This is an institution, the turtle tells us, that moves slowly, deliberately, and removed from the knee-jerk pace of the political branches.
Yet moments before they adjourned for their summer recess, the justices proved they can act quite quickly and recklessly when it comes to violating the terms …
Remembrance Of Lives Past: The Challenge Of Addressing Epigenetic Risk In Society, Fazal Khan
Remembrance Of Lives Past: The Challenge Of Addressing Epigenetic Risk In Society, Fazal Khan
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Do our ancestors’ experiences from several generations ago play a role in our current health? Could a famine or a period of food abundance experienced by our grandfathers affect whether we are currently obese or likely to develop diabetes? Can being the grandchildren of those who suffered through genocide or intense racial discrimination affect levels of certain chemicals in our brains even if we are not exposed to the same social stresses? In other words, do we biologically inherit the “memories” of past generations independent of changes to our ancestors’ genetic code or DNA? Assistant Professor Fazal Khan explores how …