This is so good! I just read the abstract to my bioethics class during our class on moral status and personhood.
This is so good! I just read the abstract to my bioethics class during our class on moral status and personhood.
Please count me in, if anyone wants a guest lecture on health care financing or insurance or something. I can do public health law or torts, too.
I recently gave a lecture in China to law students there on the basics of United States healthcare financing from a legal perspective and I think it might be helpful to people here who arenβt in the field. Here is the YouTube link, I think it is pretty easy to follow and straightforward.
This looks so interesting!
Damn! I donβt think Iβve fallen for one before. Itβs a good one, at least.
I did! Thank you so much for saying that, very appreciated.
That was supposed to be a reply to ciggysmokeβs comment, btw.
I love this way of describing a specific type of behavior. May I borrow it for my students? Not everyone wants to be loud, and it doesnβt suit every personβs best skill set, either.
I am super excited to give a talk at Case Western next week that is set up to be open to the public on the internet and that gives you a CLE credit. ttps://case.edu/law/our-school/events-lectures/unmasking-financialization-healthcare-jacqueline-fox
Doesnβt really answer your question as to why it isnβt better, though. Probably a combination of price setting patterns, general lack of regard for insured people, suspicion of motives, stuff like that. The ACA open season was shortened to discourage people from enrolling, I think.
If I remember correctly, annual open enrollment for employer plans was required for preferential tax treatment purposes. You had to give all relevant employees a chance to know what their options were and time to make choices. There are labor regs, tax regs, maybe HIPAA regs all premised on it.
I hate that you made me snort/laugh out loud with that one.
Super important and damaging changes could be coming to the ACA marketplace with the new budget being debated right now. This piece does a great job summarizing them. www.kff.org/from-drew-al...
This is something that should inspire such hope for our future, but now it is coupled with fear that we may not be able to build on it because of federal retrenchment from supporting research. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
I am very excited to share that my most recent law review article is freely available at this link: ecollections.law.fiu.edu/lawreview/vo...
Thank you for this, super helpful.
She did a TikTok where she read it aloud. Was painful to watch. She is such a smart, formidable and kind woman.
I found this article to be a really good starting point for looking at the Trump admin executive order about withdrawing from the WHO. foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/23/w...
So excited to use this!
Have any of my health law friends seen this weird decision out of North Carolina about not protecting trans kidsβ medical records from discovery? As reported, itβs bizarre and worrisome, I was wondering if anyone might know what is actually going on with it. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
Thatβs so good!
This looks great! May I shamelessly self promote an adjacent article I wrote a few years ago that contexualizes how medical necessity sits within a broader power imbalance? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Adding, I had to go to NYC for a procedure because no one could do it in Columbia SC. And had to wait months.
Pretty much everyone who has to access healthcare has to wait, if they are lucky enough to either have a doctor or find a qualified provider who is taking new patients. I like the data in this set because it is pretty straightforward. assets.ctfassets.net/4f3rgqwzdznj...
That is an awesome article, but I thought I saw someone refer to claims denials as a form of medical violence,thatβs the framing thatβs blowing my mind right now, so clean and comprehensive. I might have actually made the leap myself, just wanted to be careful I wasnβt short changing someone else.
Thereβs a framing Iβve seen about too that I think is brilliant, wish I knew who did the original work, where claims denials, etc. are acknowledged as a form of medical violence.
Iβm not surprised by the numbers, but once people hear more about private equity, they get really mad. I think it goes to the top of blame for people who know about it.
Thatβs really scary stuff. Also, her thesis sounds amazing.
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Oh, I have one for this! In eighth grade, my social studies teacher wrote this in my report card and my father saved it, gave it back to me when I got my promotion to full professor, βHi, Iβm Jacqueline, I fancy myself an intellectual.β