Health Reform Watch


"Seeks to provide an open forum for academics, medical professionals, policy makers, journalists, lawyers, students and concerned citizens as we, as a country, attempt to navigate the imperative of health care reform."

Author: Editor-in-chief Frank Pasquale is a professor and associate director of the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology at Seton Hall University School of Law. He also contributes to Concurring Opinions, Law, Science & Technology and Madisonian. Managing editor Michael Ricciardelli is a speech writer and a member of the Advisory Board for the New Jersey Education Consortium. Conrad Dillon is a health care attorney and, along with Justin M. Goldstein, a candidate for the Master of Laws in Health Law degree at Seton Hall University School of Law. Tamara R. Coley, Jacob V. Hudnut and Kaitlin Semler are law students at Seton Hall.

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Recent Posts from Health Reform Watch


  • Taking the Fraud Out of Medicare Expansion

    One of the ways the Obama administration hopes to pay for health care reform is through policing Medicare fraud.  It is estimated that the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) spends $60 billion a…

  • New Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations Cause Controversy

    Rarely do medical recommendations or clinical guidelines receive such immediate and passionate attention as those released this month by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), an independent panel of doctors and scientists who make…

  • Genetic Discrimination and the Future of Health Insurance

    Have health insurance companies outlived their useful life? The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) is taking effect.  The employment provisions are effective on November 21.  The health coverage provisions began to apply on May 21,…

  • Nonprofit Health Related CEO Compensation

    Health Insurance Company CEOs in the U.S. earned tens of millions in 2008, but what about nonprofits? If you guessed that nonprofit CEOs are paid less than their private sector counterparts, you are right. But…

  • Taking Steps Toward Reform

    Should an imperfect health reform bill be passed?  Health reform should be about four things: 1) expanding coverage to all; 2) providing health security for those already insured; 3) ending the fragmentation of health care…

  • The FDA Steps In: Regulating Prescription Drug Promotion on the Internet

    The FDA has been widely criticized for not providing guidance for drug companies eager to promote their products on the internet.  Earlier this year, the FDA expressed the view that the message was what was…

  • Urgency, Medicalization, and Sick Days

    The US media have recently coalesced around a narrative asserting that US health care costs too much in the aggregate because citizens are demanding too much health care. But the “too much demand” narrative must…

  • NY State Senator Eric Schneiderman, Ian’s Law & the Insurance Company Two-Step

    Interesting conversation over at WNYC on The Brian Lehrer Show: New York State Senator Eric Schneiderman (D-Manhattan/Bronx) was interviewed about legislation he and State Senator Neil Breslin (D-Delmar; Insurance Committee Chair) recently introduced called “Ian’s…

  • Here’s an Idea: Asking Doctors about Health Care Reform

    The New York Times just published a very interesting article that ties the efforts of the medical community to bring about change in the American health care system with Congress’s attempts to reform health care…

  • Thanks for Sharing, The Republican Party Offers Up a Health Reform Plan

    Ezra Klein over at the Washington Post does a fine job of analyzing the political lesson in the recently proffered Republican health care reform plan–and the even more recent initial Congressional Budget Office analysis of…