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Coons V. Geithner - Scheduling Order, United States District Court For The District Of Arizona Jan 2011

Coons V. Geithner - Scheduling Order, United States District Court For The District Of Arizona

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Coons V. Geithner - U.S. Motion To Stay Plaintiffs' Motion For Summary Judgement, United States Department Of Health And Human Services Jan 2011

Coons V. Geithner - U.S. Motion To Stay Plaintiffs' Motion For Summary Judgement, United States Department Of Health And Human Services

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Bryant V. Holder - U.S. Reply Brief, Eric Holder Jan 2011

Bryant V. Holder - U.S. Reply Brief, Eric Holder

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Goudy-Bachman V. Hhs - District Court Order Denying 12(B)(1), United States District Court For The Middle District Of Pennsylvania Jan 2011

Goudy-Bachman V. Hhs - District Court Order Denying 12(B)(1), United States District Court For The Middle District Of Pennsylvania

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Constitutionality Of The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act Under The Commerce Clause And The Necessary And Proper Clause, Wilson Huhn Jan 2011

Constitutionality Of The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act Under The Commerce Clause And The Necessary And Proper Clause, Wilson Huhn

Akron Law Faculty Publications

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a comprehensive federal statute that attempts to extend health insurance coverage to tens of millions of Americans and to expand health insurance coverage by eliminating exclusions for preexisting conditions, increase medical loss ratios, abolish annual and lifetime limits, and other reforms. A necessary provision of this law (the individual mandate) requires most individuals to maintain health insurance coverage. The individual mandate has been challenged in a number of lawsuits on the ground that Congress lacks the power under the Constitution to require individuals to purchase health insurance. The power of Congress to …


Health Insurance Reform And Intimations Of Citizenship, Nan D. Hunter Jan 2011

Health Insurance Reform And Intimations Of Citizenship, Nan D. Hunter

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article considers the implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) for social meanings of civic belonging in American society and for possible new forms of individual engagement with the health care system. Once fully implemented, PPACA will have many of the governance characteristics of other social insurance systems, in that it will define membership in a collective undertaking, establish a mechanism for collective security against a shared risk, and channel, incentivize and penalize specific behaviors. The article considers the extent to which PPACA has the potential to also produce new narratives and understandings of social solidarity …


Why It's Called The Affordable Care Act, Nicholas Bagley, Jill R. Horwitz Jan 2011

Why It's Called The Affordable Care Act, Nicholas Bagley, Jill R. Horwitz

Articles

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (“ACA”) raises numerous policy and legal issues, but none have attracted as much attention from lawyers as Section 1501. This provision, titled “Maintenance of Mini-mum Essential Coverage,” but better known as the “individual mandate,” requires most Americans to obtain health insurance for themselves and their dependents by 2014. We are dismayed that the narrow issue of the mandate and the narrower issue of free riding have garnered so much attention when our nation’s health-care system suffers from countless problems. By improving quality, controlling costs, and extending coverage to the uninsured, the …


Rural Hospital Ownership: Medical Service Provision, Market Mix, And Spillover Effects, Jill R. Horwitz, Austin Nichols Jan 2011

Rural Hospital Ownership: Medical Service Provision, Market Mix, And Spillover Effects, Jill R. Horwitz, Austin Nichols

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Objective. To test whether nonprofit, for-profit, or government hospital ownership affects medical service provision in rural hospital markets, either directly or through the spillover effects of ownership mix. Data Sources/Study Setting. Data are from the American Hospital Association, U.S. Census, CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System and Prospective Payment System Minimum Data File, and primary data collection for geographic coordinates. The sample includes all nonfederal, general medical, and surgical hospitals located outside of metropolitan statistical areas and within the continental United States from 1988 to 2005. Study Design. We estimate multivariate regression models to examine the effects of (1) hospital …


Shifting The Conversation: Disability, Disparities And Health Care Reform, Elizabeth Pendo Jan 2011

Shifting The Conversation: Disability, Disparities And Health Care Reform, Elizabeth Pendo

All Faculty Scholarship

This piece is an invitation to consider health care reform as a political shift in our thinking about the barriers and inequalities experienced by people with disabilities in our health care system. Traditionally, when these issues have been addressed, the predominant approach has been through a civil rights framework, specifically the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the American with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). Now, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) offers a new approach. This essay will outline the barriers to health and health care experienced by people with disabilities, drawing upon my ongoing research …


The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act Of 2010: Rulemaking The Shadow Of Incentive-Based Regulation, Sam F. Halabi Jan 2011

The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act Of 2010: Rulemaking The Shadow Of Incentive-Based Regulation, Sam F. Halabi

Faculty Publications

While legislators, scholars and mainstream observers are focused on the intense debates surrounding the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, the Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies are proceeding apace in promulgating rules to implement the law’s other requirements. Congress’s substantial delegation of administrative authority to HHS and other agencies will provide a second key area for constitutional challenges after the U.S. Supreme Court resolves the initial lawsuits based on the individual mandate. Between facial constitutional challenges to the Affordable Care Act and lawsuits based on defects in agency rules or the …


A Cautious Path Forward On Accountable Care Organizations, Barak D. Richman, Kevin A. Schulman Jan 2011

A Cautious Path Forward On Accountable Care Organizations, Barak D. Richman, Kevin A. Schulman

Faculty Scholarship

The wave of new Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), spurred by financial incentives in the Affordable Care Act, could become the latest chapter in the steady accumulation of market power by hospitals, health care systems, and physician groups. The main purpose behind forming many ACOs may not be to achieve cost savings but instead to strengthen negotiating power over purchasers in the private sector. This would be an unfortunate sequel to the waves of mergers in the 1990s when health care entities sought to counter market pressure from managed care organizations. The possibility that ACOs might further concentrate health care markets …


The Provider-Monopoly Problem In Health Care, Clark C. Havighurst, Barak D. Richman Jan 2011

The Provider-Monopoly Problem In Health Care, Clark C. Havighurst, Barak D. Richman

Faculty Scholarship

Although federal judges have resisted giving due effect to standard antitrust principles in scrutinizing mergers of nonprofit hospitals, the presence of health insurance makes it especially important to oppose monopoly in health services markets. U.S.-style health insurance gives monopolist providers extraordinary pricing freedom, thus exacerbating monopoly’s usual redistributive effects. Significant allocative inefficiencies - albeit not the kind generally associated with monopoly - also result when the monopolist is a nonprofit hospital. Because it is probably impossible to undo past hospital mergers creating undue market power, we suggest some alternative remedies. One is to apply antitrust rules against "tying" arrangements so …


Baldwin V. Sebelius - Brief For Appellants, Steve Baldwin Nov 2010

Baldwin V. Sebelius - Brief For Appellants, Steve Baldwin

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Sissel V. Hhs - U.S. Motion To Dismiss, United States Department Of Health And Human Services Nov 2010

Sissel V. Hhs - U.S. Motion To Dismiss, United States Department Of Health And Human Services

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Health Insurance Politics In Federal Court, Wendy K. Mariner, George J. Annas Sep 2010

Health Insurance Politics In Federal Court, Wendy K. Mariner, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

Having been outmaneuvered in Congress with the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Affordable Care Act,” or ACA), Republicans have taken their case to federal court, arguing that the law's key provision, the individual mandate to purchase health insurance, is unconstitutional. This argument has been made most prominently by attorneys general from 20 states in a Florida federal court and by the Commonwealth of Virginia in a Virginia federal court. In early August, federal district court judge Henry Hudson decided that the Virginia challenge deserves a hearing,1 thereby giving the constitutional argument an aura of respectability …


Seven-Sky V. Holder - U.S. Reply Brief, Eric Holder Sep 2010

Seven-Sky V. Holder - U.S. Reply Brief, Eric Holder

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Seven-Sky V. Holder - Plaintiffs' Memorandum In Opposition To Motion To Dismiss, Susan Seven-Sky, American Center For Law & Justice Sep 2010

Seven-Sky V. Holder - Plaintiffs' Memorandum In Opposition To Motion To Dismiss, Susan Seven-Sky, American Center For Law & Justice

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Baldwin V. Sebelius - District Court Opinion, United States District Court For The Southern District Of California Aug 2010

Baldwin V. Sebelius - District Court Opinion, United States District Court For The Southern District Of California

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Coons V. Geithner - Original Complaint, Nick Coons Aug 2010

Coons V. Geithner - Original Complaint, Nick Coons

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Florida V. Hhs - States Memorandum In Opposition To Defendants' Motion To Dismiss, State Of Florida Aug 2010

Florida V. Hhs - States Memorandum In Opposition To Defendants' Motion To Dismiss, State Of Florida

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Virginia V. Sebelius - Opinion Denying Motion To Dismiss, United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Virginia Aug 2010

Virginia V. Sebelius - Opinion Denying Motion To Dismiss, United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Virginia

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Seven-Sky V. Holder - U.S. Motion To Dismiss, Eric Holder Aug 2010

Seven-Sky V. Holder - U.S. Motion To Dismiss, Eric Holder

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Sissel V. Hhs - Original Complaint, Matt Sissel Jul 2010

Sissel V. Hhs - Original Complaint, Matt Sissel

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Kinder V. Geithner - Original Complaint, Peter Kinder Jul 2010

Kinder V. Geithner - Original Complaint, Peter Kinder

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Seven-Sky V. Holder - Amended Complaint, Susan Seven-Sky Jul 2010

Seven-Sky V. Holder - Amended Complaint, Susan Seven-Sky

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Florida V. Hhs - U.S. Motion To Dismiss, United States Department Of Health And Human Services Jun 2010

Florida V. Hhs - U.S. Motion To Dismiss, United States Department Of Health And Human Services

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Florida V. Hhs - Original Complaint, State Of Florida Mar 2010

Florida V. Hhs - Original Complaint, State Of Florida

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Virginia V. Sebelius - Original Complaint, Commonwealth Of Virginia Mar 2010

Virginia V. Sebelius - Original Complaint, Commonwealth Of Virginia

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.


Conflating Health Care Reform With Tort Reform, Steven M. Pavsner Jan 2010

Conflating Health Care Reform With Tort Reform, Steven M. Pavsner

The Modern American

No abstract provided.


Reducing Disparities Through Health Care Reform: Disability And Accessible Medical Equipment, Elizabeth Pendo Jan 2010

Reducing Disparities Through Health Care Reform: Disability And Accessible Medical Equipment, Elizabeth Pendo

All Faculty Scholarship

People with disabilities face multiple barriers to adequate health care and report poorer health status than people without disabilities. Although health care institutions, offices, and programs are required to be accessible, people with disabilities are still receiving unequal and in many cases inadequate care. The 2009 report by the National Council on Disability, The Current State of Health Care for People with Disabilities, reaffirmed some of these findings, concluding that people with disabilities experience significant health disparities and barriers to health care; encounter a lack of coverage for necessary services, medications, equipment, and technologies; and are not included in the …