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ArticleVol. 103 · Iss. 1
Drug Dealing: Making Public Pharma Work
The U.S. market for prescription drugs is failing many Americans. Drug prices in the United States are nearly three times higher than in comparable…
Sahil Agrawal, Melissa Barber, Amy Kapczynski & Trudel Pare -
ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 5
Anticompetitive Healthcare
American healthcare is known for insufficient competition, high prices, and porous quality. This landscape seems to have not only degraded consumer welfare in general…
Gregory Day -
ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 3
The Ghosts of the Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is perhaps the most important piece of social legislation enacted in the United States in the…
Gabriel Scheffler -
ArticleVol. 99 · Iss. 6
Preferencing Nonmarriage In Later Years
Introduction Consider the following scenario: Bill and Betty were married to other people for most of their adult lives but met two years ago…
Richard L. Kaplan -
ArticleVol. 99 · Iss. 4
New Innovation Models in Medical AI
ABSTRACT In recent years, scientists and researchers have devoted considerable resources to developing medical artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Many of these technologies—particularly those that…
W. Nicholson Price II, Rachel E. Sachs & Rebecca S. Eisenberg -
ArticleVol. 88 · Iss. 2
ERISA & Uncertainty
In the United States, retirement income and health insurance are largely provided through private promises made incident to employment. These “benefit promises” are governed…
Brendan S. Maher & Peter K. Stris -
NoteVol. 94 · Iss. 5
Wrongly “Identified”: Why an Actual Knowledge Standard Should Govern Health Care Providers’ False Claims Act Obligations to Report and Return Medicare and Medicaid Overpayments
In 2015, Medicare spent $632 billion on health care for America’s elderly (and other covered groups). Medicaid spent another $554 billion to provide health…
Nicholas J. Goldin -
ArticleVol. 95 · Iss. 1
Consumer Financial Protection in Health Care
There are inadequate consumer protections from harmful medical billing practices that result in unavoidable, unexpected, and often financially devastating medical bills. The problem stems…
Erin C. Fuse Brown -
NoteVol. 96 · Iss. 1
No Pay for Sexist Performance: How Gender Disparities in Healthcare Hurt Hospitals’ Pay for Performance Reimbursements
Gender disparities and discrimination in healthcare treatment are vast. Women in pain are deemed hysterical, heart attacks in women are caught less frequently than…
Emily C. Bartlett -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 5
Alienage Classifications and the Denial of Health Care to Dreamers
In the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), passed in 2010, Congress provided that only “lawfully present” individuals could obtain insurance through the Marketplaces established under…
Fatma Marouf -
NoteVol. 92 · Iss. 6
The Evolution of Federal Courts’ Healthcare Antitrust Analysis: Does the PPACA Spell the End to Hospital Mergers?
Traditionally, hospital mergers were seen as a benefit to consumers. That is no longer the case. After years of nonprofit hospitals engaging in price…
Collin Z. Groebe -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 5
Liquid Gold
According to federal health and census data, addiction treatment is expected to be a $42 billion industry in 2020. It has doubled in size…
Katrice Bridges Copeland