Mar
28
If the Law Says That . . .
Posted by: John J. Kircher | March 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
This is the second post in an occasional series entitled “Law Gone Wrong.” The editors of the Faculty Blog invited Law School faculty to share their thoughts on misguided statutes, disastrous judicial decisions, and other examples where the law has gone wrong (and needs to be nudged back on course). Today’s contribution is from Professor Jack [...]
Dec
1
Doyle Puts Health Care and Education at the Top of His Accomplishments
Posted by: Alan J. Borsuk | December 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Appearing relaxed and comfortable as the end of his eight years in office approaches, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle said Tuesday that he put his work on health care in Wisconsin at the top of his list of accomplishments. “We have made Wisconsin really the health care leader in the United States,” Doyle said during an [...]
Nov
15
Reform?
Posted by: Sarah Knutson | November 15, 2010 | 3 Comments
On November 7, 2010, Senator-elect Ron Johnson was a guest on “Up Front with Mike Gousha.” He made a comment that hit the heart of an issue I have often pondered. This past summer, I had the opportunity to clerk for a law firm that handles primarily medical malpractice actions. So, this conversation sparked my [...]
Oct
25
Best of the Blogs: One Lump or Two?
Posted by: Edward A. Fallone | October 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment
November 2 is fast approaching, and the nation is awaiting the election results to see whether the Tea Party Movement will be revealed to be a force in American politics or an over-hyped media sensation. This week’s “Best of the Blogs” feature provides everything a political junkie needs to learn more about the Tea Party Movement. The [...]
Jun
1
Libertarians and Liberals
Posted by: Edward A. Fallone | June 1, 2010 | 4 Comments
It is a peculiar characteristic unique to our country that Americans talk about political issues in constitutional terms, thereby turning every policy debate into an argument over basic principles. That was my thought when I read about Senate candidate Rand Paul and his “Constitutionalist” view that the federal government has no right to dictate the [...]
May
21
Health Reform and Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Posted by: Joel Teitelbaum | May 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment
One of the most troubling aspects of the U.S. health care system is the existence, and extent, of racial and ethnic health disparities. Research has amply documented that members of racial and ethnic minority groups receive fewer health care services and lower quality health care than non-minority patients (see, for example, the rather damning portrait [...]
May
14
The Constitutionality of Health Reform’s “Individual Mandate”
Posted by: Joel Teitelbaum | May 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment
As noted in my blog post last week (“The Beginning of Health Reform“), pushback against the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was swift. Members of nearly 40 state legislatures have proposed legislation or constitutional amendments limiting or opposing certain provisions of the Act, with most of the proposals targeting the Act’s requirement that [...]
May
6
The Beginning of Health Reform
Posted by: Joel Teitelbaum | May 6, 2010 | 1 Comment
On March 23, 2010, President Obama made history by signing into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a landmark statute that aims to fundamentally reform virtually all aspects of the nation’s health care system. The health reform law is fairly viewed as the most sweeping social policy legislation since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society [...]
May
1
Age Discrimination in Health Care
Posted by: Michael M. O'Hear | May 1, 2010 | 8 Comments
Among other things, the recent ”death panel” controversy highlights our collective unease with the thought of elderly people being denied needed medical care based on someone else’s decision that their lives are not worth saving. Yet, even without death panels, much research demonstrates that the elderly already suffer a great deal of discrimination in the health-care system, from the [...]
Apr
3
What Are The Core Constitutional Values Behind The Tea Party Movement?
Posted by: Edward A. Fallone | April 3, 2010 | 1 Comment
I recently posted an article on SSRN entitled “Charters, Compacts and Tea Parties: The Decline and Resurrection of a Delegation View of the Constitution.” You can download the article here. The emergence of the Tea Party Movement as a political phenomenon has generated a great deal of media attention and punditry over the last year. [...]
Mar
10
Is Prevention in Health Care Misguided?
Posted by: Alison Barnes | March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Please, don’t throw tomatoes yet! Everybody knows that prevention in the twentieth century, particularly due to use of infectious disease vaccines and more recently some innovative invasive procedures, has changed the demographic face of our population and the world’s. Of course, while what “everybody” knows is never the whole of the matter, the inspiring story [...]
Feb
24
Milwaukee Sick Leave Ordinance May Be Headed to State Supreme Court
Posted by: Paul M. Secunda | February 24, 2010 | 2 Comments
Hat tip to CCH Technical Answer group for an update on the status of the Milwaukee Sick Pay Ordinance that was passed by referendum in November 2008, only to be invalidated by a state trial court judge. According to the posting, the Milwaukee paid sick leave case has now been referred to the state supreme court: [...]
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