Kaiser Health News

JUNE 29, 2022

Congress should crack down on Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors that sometimes deny patients vital medical care while overcharging the government billions of dollars every year, government watchdogs told a House panel Tuesday.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

My approach to human rights advocacy, as well as my thinking about international human rights law and comparative law has certainly been shaped by living and working for so many years in Latin America and doing a doctorate in law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina, where I have family.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). More than twice as many Black men believe that in 2020 compared with 2006.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Just another name for a government-run, single payer system. Just another name for a government-run, single payer system. As head of the agency that serves over 58 million Medicare beneficiaries, I deal first-hand with the challenges of government run healthcare. Just look at the decreasing numbers of doctors.

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

2023) (federal government may unilaterally obtain dismissal of FCA claims, and calling the constitutionality of the FCA’s private enforcement mechanism into question) ( here ); Quishenberry v. Thus, CEH turned on implied impossibility preemption, specifically an application of Mensing ( 2011+1 ) independence principle. Polansky v.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 26, 2023

Both talk a fair amount about “commerce” and the respective roles of the states and federal government. 2011), aff’d , 741 F.3d They look a lot like they are analyzing preemption, the DCC, or the plain old CC. Yet, neither mentions preemption, the Supremacy Clause, the DCC, or the CC. See Gross v. Pfizer, Inc. , 2d 654, 659 (D.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 19, 2023

In 2011 (during the Obama Administration), the FDA completed the REMS for mifepristone, mandating that it “only be prescribed by certified physicians, dispensed in certain healthcare facilities, and taken in the provider’s clinic.” That argument contravened the standing holdings of just about every other abortion case in history.

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Drug & Device Law

MARCH 31, 2023

Criticizing attempts to sue publishers of scientific content, here in 2011, and again, here in 2013. Statements directed to trained medical personnel – like the kind of warnings governed by the learned intermediary rule in product liability litigation – are more likely to qualify as First Amendment protected scientific speech.

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Drug & Device Law

MARCH 13, 2023

It’s not like plaintiffs in prescription medical product liability litigation need strict liability to avoid problems with comparative fault, since doctors, not the plaintiffs, are usually the decision makers. So why do they care? E.g. , Lewis v. Coffing Hoist Division , 528 A.2d 2d 590, 593-94 (Pa. 1987) (overhead crane); Sullivan v.

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Drug & Device Law

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Plaintiff had the device implanted in 2011 and explanted more than seven years later, apparently not because of any symptoms or known injury. The purported misrepresentations to doctors “flow factually from her allegations of fraud-on-the-FDA,” so they were also preempted. The facts of Garcia are sparse. 2022 WL 4536240, *1.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 10, 2022

Nor can they include the logo of a federal or state government agency, so as not to suggest affiliation with any such agency. Finally, they cannot use the word “recall” except “when referring to a product that has been recalled by a government agency or through an agreement between a manufacturer and government agency.”

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