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Covering The Care: Health Insurance Coverage In New Hampshire, Jo Porter, Lucy Hodder
Covering The Care: Health Insurance Coverage In New Hampshire, Jo Porter, Lucy Hodder
Law Faculty Scholarship
the first in a series of data and policy briefs that seek to inform the current conversations about health reform happening across the state. The first brief uses data from the American Community Survey to provide information about the health insurance coverage landscape in NH.
Medicare At Fifty Needs To Grow, William H. Lane
Medicare At Fifty Needs To Grow, William H. Lane
English Faculty Publications
In America everybody has a healthcare story. A bill impossible to read, an inscrutable "additional" charge, trouble getting insurance, trouble keeping it, a friend or family member who's fallen between the coverage "cracks." [excerpt]
Procedural Triage, Matthew B. Lawrence
Procedural Triage, Matthew B. Lawrence
Faculty Articles
Prior scholarship has assumed that the inherent value of a “day in court” is the same for all claimants, so that when procedural resources (like a jury trial or a hearing) are scarce, they should be rationed the same way for all claimants. That is incorrect. This Article shows that the inherent value of a “day in court” can be far greater for some claimants, such as first-time filers, than for others, such as corporate entities and that it can be both desirable and feasible to take this variation into account in doling out scarce procedural protections. In other words, …
The Reverberating Risk Of Long-Term Care, Allison K. Hoffman
The Reverberating Risk Of Long-Term Care, Allison K. Hoffman
All Faculty Scholarship
The Fiftieth Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid offers an opportunity to reflect on how American social policy has conceived of the problem of long-term care. In this essay, based on a longer forthcoming article, I argue that current policies adopt too narrow a conception of long-term care risk, by focusing on the effect of serious illness and disability on people who need care and not on the friends and family who often provide it. I propose a more complete view of long-term care risk that acknowledges how illness and disability reverberates through communities, posing insecurity for people beyond those in …