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

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…
Risks to Directors and Trustees of Health Care & Life Sciences Companies: Corporate Compliance in a Distressed Economy
“Risks to Directors and Trustees of Health Care & Life Sciences Companies: Corporate Compliance in a Distressed Economy,” was sponsored by Seton Hall Law’s Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, Epstein Becker &…
Medical-Legal Partnerships
Sometimes gesturing toward a good idea is worse than ignoring it. Section 2537 of the House reform bill (HR 3967) would create a demonstration project supporting medical-legal partnerships. Medical-legal partnerships are a great thing. So…
The House Democrats’ Health Care Plan Unveiled, Questions on Women’s Access to Health Care Remain
Last Thursday, October 29th, House Democrats announced their bill for health care reform, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. The House bill includes provisions such as a public option and employer mandates. For women,…
Report: Uninsured Hospitalized Children Face a 6o Percent Increased Risk of Dying
Sometimes the numbers speak louder than words, and the words are just painful to hear: the New York Times’ Prescriptions reports that Researchers analyzed data from more than 23 million children’s hospitalizations from 1988 to…
Reform Rodeo
1. Kaiser Health News discusses the details of the House’s latest iteration of their Health bill. 2. Ezra Klein analyzes whether the public plan will cost insureds more than private insurance. 3. The New England…
Reforming Medical Treatment for People with Serious Mental Illness
What group could health reform help most? The obvious choice (maybe the right one) would be people with no insurance, or lousy insurance. It is clear that un- or underinsurance is bad for your physical…
Short Shrift for Stillbirth in Health Reform?
Short Shrift for Stillbirth?[1] The health reform bill that cleared the Senate Finance Committee earlier this month — S. 1796 — incorporates at least two pieces of pending legislation relating to maternal and infant health. …
Why We All Need to Send Joe Lieberman a Dollar
Senator Joe Lieberman is an Independent. As romantically autonomous as that may sound, it also means he can count on support from neither the Democratic nor Republican Parties. It takes money to maintain a Senate…
Another Call for Women’s Action on Health Care Reform
Just a little over a month ago, Michelle Obama called upon women to take action to make sure their representatives would vote for health care reform. This past week, Michelle made another request for women…