Eye-opening piece by Jill Horwitz @jillh.bsky.social & Mary Beckman on the threat that private equity's pursuit of short-term rewards poses to health care for the least-advantaged among us: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Standing up for what's right is harder to do now, but it's more important than ever before for health professionals to do this. #publichealth When Should Federal Health Professionals Disobey Orders? www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore... @greggbloche.bsky.social @kerrywallace.bsky.social

Just out in Health Affairs: With former #AMA ethics chief David Orentlicher & Urban Institute fellow Kerry Wallace, I'm urging federal health professionals to disobey orders that violate medical ethics. "Federal Health Professionals' Duties to Disobey" www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Please join the Urban Institute Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity.

Please access our website for webinars and other information on the Urban Institute-Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity and the Law www.law.georgetown.edu/urban-instit...

drive.google.com/open?id=1Lyj... Reposting Article on Health Regulation at Risk: The Supreme Court and Women's Health so that it is accessible

Important article on Health Regulation at Risk: The Supreme Court and Women's Healthhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1I_dRxyaHCwMp5kPvi8mDnpOSQLGkNG85eOo_1OkZhUQ?usp=drive_fs

Such a deeply-moving piece, just posted in Health Affairs, remembering Susan Wood, whose integrity & courage ought to inspire us in these surreal times www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Rule-of-Law plays with a 2 handicap on this SCOTUS ⛳️🏌️‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Listen to this piece - it’s important: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Kudos to @georgetownlaw.bsky.social & our students for putting it on the line for democracy! Or, as this piece put it, "Georgetown continues to be ranked #1 in cojones" abovethelaw.com/2025/03/geor...

Medical school acceptances for marginalized racial & ethnic groups are in sudden, steep decline. Join us Fri. March 21, 2 to 3:15 pm EDT, for discussion of the worrisome health implications & strategies for reversing this trend. Register in advance at: georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Proposed cuts to #Medicaid could endanger #health insurance for low-income Americans. Join Urban on 3/10 @ 2:00 p.m. ET for a virtual event that will explore these cuts’ potential effects on the program and its more than 70 million beneficiaries. #LiveatUrban

Family feud? From Pam Bondi's bro's law firm bio: "In 2021, he endowed the Bradley J. Bondi Diversity & Inclusion Scholarship Fund at the University of Florida...for law students who demonstrate a commitment to advancing the causes of diversity and inclusion." www.paulhastings.com/professional...

Join us online, Mon. March 10, 2 to 3:15 pm EDT, for "Downsizing Medicaid" - part of the "Urban Institute-Georgetown Law Series on Health Justice" Register in advance at: downsizingmedicaid.splashthat.com

A pioneer, a giant, & an inspiration! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...

WEBINAR 🗓️| Join @UrbanInstitute.bsky.social and #GeorgetownLaw on 2/26 for a virtual event on the conflict between care providers’ Hippocratic duty and immigration enforcement demands. Moderated by @greggbloche.bsky.social #healthjustice bit.ly/4kajeAl

Et tu, NAS?

Launching the Urban Institute--Georgetown Law Web Series on Health Justice! Wed. Feb 26, 12 to 1 pm ET: How should hospitals & clinics handle government demands that they assist in detaining unauthorized immigrants? Register at georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Critically-important post from Julie Linton et al, just out, on how #healthcare institutions can resist pressure from #ICE & other immigration authorities to violate medical ethics (part of Health Affairs' "Ethics & Health Systems Change" series): www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

#FlyEaglesFly tonight! But I'm not happy about Elon Musk's announcement a few hours ago that he's bought Super Bowl ads to promote his lawless #DOGE rampage www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISx...

Why? Bad legal advice? Irrational fear within the Howard Hughes Medical Institute? Some sort of vibe-shift? www.statnews.com/2025/02/06/h... via @statnews.com

Why we hate our health insurers—just posted: www.statnews.com/2025/02/05/h...

You've perhaps already seen this, but please read it closely. The impact is devastating. The wanton cruelty is unfathomable. Unknowable numbers of kids & others will die as a result. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

Closing strong at @setonhallhealthlaw.bsky.social’s 9th Annual Health Law Works-in-Progress Retreat with @medlawdan.bsky.social’s “Privatization, Cancer, and the Individualization of Social Problems” with commentators Prof. Valerie Blake of University of Tennessee Law & @greggbloche.bsky.social.

CDC just took down its Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance data - more Orwellian truth from the Trumpists: search.app/SLJXABqaAojr...

The unitary executive theory for an *unconditional* *absolute* presidential power to fire officers is a manufactured myth. I am ready w/ my amicus brief from SEC v. Jarkesy showing their anti-originalism & misuse of Founding-era sources. Who wants my help for free? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Will Trump’s immigration crackdown put pressure on healthcare institutions to breach their ethical duties to patients? Worrisome possibilities loom. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Fly Eagles Fly!!! 🏈🦅

Disciplinary action by professional societies & state licensing boards remains available as a response to these allegations, even if DoJ refuses to enforce the law www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Powerful, tight summary of devastating Medicaid cuts planned by House Republicans -- explains how and why these cuts would effectively destroy Medicaid ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/20/h...

Stunning numbers just out—numbers of Black, Latino, & Native American medical students are down by double-digit percentages nationwide in 1rst medical school class chosen since Supreme Court ended affirmative action: www.aamc.org/news/press-r...

Yet another side to Jimmy Carter - he saw the vital connection between medical professionalism and human rights (this commentary accompanied an investigative piece I did on physician participation in torture) ... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

How Elon Musk turned "Stand Up to Cancer" into "Stand Up FOR Cancer" (& against kids)

Delighted to announce the online launch of the Urban Institute/Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity (Brian Smedley, Yael Cannon, & I will co-direct) - we're engaging leading thinkers to craft remedies for our health system's profound disparities - more to come ... www.urban.org/projects/urb...

Invaluable guide to executive action Trump will/may take in health care: www.kff.org/potential-he...

Kudos to my Georgetown Law colleague, Dorothy Brown @dorothyabrown.bsky.social on her recognition as a Tax Notes "Person of the Year" for championing data-sharing that's critical for demonstration of racial inequity: www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...

Insightful piece on states' efforts to limit private equity's distortion of medical judgment (by Rooke-Ley, Fuse Brown et al) www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Arguably the most consequential health policy development in a generation — the demise of Chevron deference & the looming rebirth of the non-delegation doctrine www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Delighted to learn of Dick Allen’s much-overdue election to Baseball’s Hall of Fame. He endured shameful bigotry — and triumphed over it! www.nytimes.com/athletic/597...

Timely warning for Republicans — and those who voted for them

If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while. So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet? Story here, 🧵 to come: 🧪#IDSky

As oral arguments in the #SCOTUS Tennessee #transgender care case wrap up, here's the most comprehensive review of the medical science: Hilary Cass's independent review of gender identity services, for the UK's National Health Service: cass.independent-review.uk/home/publica...

Powerful tool for learning who will lose health insurance if Trump & Congressional Republicans kill enhanced tax credits for purchasing coverage via the #ACA Insurance Exchanges: www.urban.org/data-tools/h...

Good review of how Trump could use executive power to make abortion access difficult, even impossible for many: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

I served as a US ambassador and know hundreds of others Never met one before who hired a prostitute to seduce their brother-in-law or sent a videotape of the encounter to their sister Or who committed 18 felonies & was pardoned by another in-law I guess the job qualifications are changing…

Nice #HHS study by Bosworth et al re cost of #obesity drug coverage! Fitting for 🦃-day wknd! Missing, though, is assessment of cost of keeping patients alive longer (they'll spend more on healthcare later - economics earns its moniker, "the dismal science") #Medsky #obesity #Medicare

A must-read: just discovered this courageous, insightful piece by Walter O'Donnell MD, on the moral responsibilities of budget-cutting clinical administrators: www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Worried about the ethical impact of dizzying changes in medicine? Write for our new Health Affairs Forefront series: "Ethics and Health Systems Change." Here's my Intro (private equity, racial disparities, cost, consolidation, culture wars, & more): www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...