Introducing New Contributor Allison Hoffman
Bill of Health is pleased to welcome Allison Hoffman as an Occasional Contributor! Allison Hoffman is Assistant Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. Her work focuses on health care law and...
View ArticleThe Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide: A Global Comparative Study
In the U.S., the right to health is often held up as a utopian legal principle that other countries manage to embrace and that we shortsightedly spurn. What I learned working on a new project is that...
View ArticleRisk and Reform of Long-Term Care
By Allison Hoffman [Cross-posted from Health Affairs Blog] The 50th Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid offers an opportunity to reflect on how U.S. social policy has conceived of the problem of...
View ArticleDeath Spirals…to the Rescue!
We’ve heard a lot about “death spirals” and how they could stand in the way of the Affordable Care Act’s goal of a functioning individual health insurance marketplace. Seth Chandler has an interesting...
View ArticleGrading the ACA as Equal Protection Statute
The Affordable Care Act is sprawling. Some of its myriad provisions may (or may not!) reduce healthcare costs. Think of accountable care organizations, the hospital readmission reduction program, or...
View ArticleStill Seeking Contraceptive Compromise After Zubik v. Burwell
[Crossposted from RegBlog] By Allison Hoffman Zubik v. Burwell was this year’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) appearance on the Supreme Court stage. Consolidated with six other cases, Zubik challenged the...
View ArticleTom Price Endangers Women’s Health
In today’s NYTimes, Jill Horwitz and I have an Op-Ed describing why Donald Trump’s selection of Tom Price for secretary of health and human services is a particular threat to women’s health. Read it...
View ArticleERISA: A Bipartisan Problem for the ACA and the AHCA
By Allison K. Hoffman On Monday, the Supreme Court decided another case that enhances ERISA’s deregulatory impact, Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton (holding that pension plans maintained by...
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