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Sex Reassignment Surgery: Required For Transgendered Prisoners But Forbidden For Medicaid, Medicare, And Champus Beneficiaries, Jennifer L. Casazza
Sex Reassignment Surgery: Required For Transgendered Prisoners But Forbidden For Medicaid, Medicare, And Champus Beneficiaries, Jennifer L. Casazza
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
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Health Law As Social Justice, Lindsay Wiley
Health Law As Social Justice, Lindsay Wiley
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Health law is in the midst of a dramatic transformation. From a relatively narrow discipline focused on regulating relationships among individual patients, health care providers, and third-party payers, it is expanding into a far broader field with a burgeoning commitment to access to health care and assurance of healthy living conditions as matters of social justice. Through a series of incremental reform efforts stretching back decades before the Affordable Care Act and encompassing public health law as well as the law of health care financing and delivery, reducing health disparities has become a central focus of American health law and …
Two Years Later And Counting: The Implications Of The Supreme Court's Taxing Power Decision On The Goals Of The Affordable Care Act, Alberto R. Gonzales, Donald B. Stuart
Two Years Later And Counting: The Implications Of The Supreme Court's Taxing Power Decision On The Goals Of The Affordable Care Act, Alberto R. Gonzales, Donald B. Stuart
Law Faculty Scholarship
In 2012, in a highly anticipated decision, the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a requirement that most Americans obtain health insurance or pay a monetary penalty.' The statute in question that contained this requirement, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Act or ACA), often labeled as "Obamacare," or the Affordable Care Act, was a monumental piece of legislation (over 900 pages) that was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010. The Act represented a significant overhaul of the country's health care system and structure. The primary objectives of this legislation …
Mind The Gap: Basic Health Along The Aca’S Coverage Continuum, Sallie Thieme Sanford Sanfords@Uw.Edu
Mind The Gap: Basic Health Along The Aca’S Coverage Continuum, Sallie Thieme Sanford Sanfords@Uw.Edu
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As ACA implementation proceeds, expansion states should mind the gap — the gap between Medicaid and Marketplace. In this transition between insurance platforms, people can stumble. As a bridge between expanded Medicaid and the insurance Marketplaces, the ACA allows states to enact a Basic Health Program (BHP) supported by federal funds. The BHP option, which has been delayed until 2015, aims to reduce insurance costs and increase care continuity for low-income individuals and families. Interested states face a complicated calculus, one with significant unknowns and moving parts. In this article, I first place this new insurance affordability program in the …
A Vision Of An Emerging Right To Health Care In The United States: Expanding Health Care Equity Through Legislative Reform, Allison K. Hoffman
A Vision Of An Emerging Right To Health Care In The United States: Expanding Health Care Equity Through Legislative Reform, Allison K. Hoffman
All Faculty Scholarship
When asked to write a chapter on how litigation has advanced a right to health in the U.S., I responded skeptically, both because evidence of the existence of any such right is weak and the role of litigation in promoting its development is small at best. A snapshot of the U.S. health care system evinces the absence of even a more narrow right to health care – a guarantee of equitable access to basic medical care. Instead, it reveals a fragmented picture of public and private financing that leaves many people lacking meaningful access to care. More so, the places …