They are kind of mad but also excited by the absurd scope of the question.

It is the last substantive day of my bioethics class and we just finished reading about social justice theory. I have just sent them into their groups to come up with the proper goals of a health care financing system and how we should pay for it. They report back in twenty minutes.

Beauchamp and Childress principles of biomedical ethics. It has been such fun for real.

That’s my bioethics class this semester and it has been so much fun. One book, and after covering some basics early on, deep group work on specific issues then coming together to try and solve the problems.

For my torts students with a big essay question, I tell them to write the names of every possible party and make sure they consider each one as a possible plaintiff or defendant against every other one. Plus lots of the advice already given here!

This is so good! I just read the abstract to my bioethics class during our class on moral status and personhood.

Please count me in, if anyone wants a guest lecture on health care financing or insurance or something. I can do public health law or torts, too.

LHSS: Understanding the US Healthcare Financing System Title: LHSS: Understanding the US Healthcare Financing System Speaker：Prof. Jacqueline Fox, University of South Carolina Joseph Rice School of Law Moderator：Norman P. Ho, Peking University School of Transnational Law Date and Time: December 9, 2025 Lecture Summary: The United States has a unique, and uniquely chaotic, system for paying for health care. Many different entities pay for care, including the federal government, private citizens, and employers. There is rationing, both based on need and who has money. This presentation will explain how this financing and rationing system is structured. At the end there will be a brief description of the changes coming next year under a law passed by the Trump administration.

I recently gave a lecture in China to law students there on the basics of United States healthcare financing from a legal perspective and I think it might be helpful to people here who aren’t in the field. Here is the YouTube link, I think it is pretty easy to follow and straightforward.

This looks so interesting!

Damn! I don’t think I’ve fallen for one before. It’s a good one, at least.

I did! Thank you so much for saying that, very appreciated.

That was supposed to be a reply to ciggysmoke’s comment, btw.

I love this way of describing a specific type of behavior. May I borrow it for my students? Not everyone wants to be loud, and it doesn’t suit every person’s best skill set, either.

Unmasking the Financialization of Healthcare with Jacqueline Fox | School of Law | Case Western Reserve University In-Person for STUDENTS; Virtual for all others The Elena and Miles Zaremski Law Medicine Forum presents:Unmasking the Financialization of Healthcare F...

I am super excited to give a talk at Case Western next week that is set up to be open to the public on the internet and that gives you a CLE credit. ttps://case.edu/law/our-school/events-lectures/unmasking-financialization-healthcare-jacqueline-fox

Doesn’t really answer your question as to why it isn’t better, though. Probably a combination of price setting patterns, general lack of regard for insured people, suspicion of motives, stuff like that. The ACA open season was shortened to discourage people from enrolling, I think.

If I remember correctly, annual open enrollment for employer plans was required for preferential tax treatment purposes. You had to give all relevant employees a chance to know what their options were and time to make choices. There are labor regs, tax regs, maybe HIPAA regs all premised on it.

I hate that you made me snort/laugh out loud with that one.

The Spotlight Is on Medicaid Cuts, But the ACA Marketplaces Could See a One-Third Cut in Enrollment In his latest column, President and CEO Drew Altman shows how proposals contained in the House reconciliation bill could result in a one-third reduction in ACA Marketplace enrollment. “While all eyes ...

Super important and damaging changes could be coming to the ACA marketplace with the new budget being debated right now. This piece does a great job summarizing them. www.kff.org/from-drew-al...

Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

This is something that should inspire such hope for our future, but now it is coupled with fear that we may not be able to build on it because of federal retrenchment from supporting research. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

I am very excited to share that my most recent law review article is freely available at this link: ecollections.law.fiu.edu/lawreview/vo...

Thank you for this, super helpful.

She did a TikTok where she read it aloud. Was painful to watch. She is such a smart, formidable and kind woman.

WHO Withdrawal Could Be a Disaster—or an Opportunity Trump’s attempt to leave may clear the way for global health diplomacy.

I found this article to be a really good starting point for looking at the Trump admin executive order about withdrawing from the WHO. foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/23/w...

So excited to use this!

Transgender Minors Unable to Stop Lawmakers' UNC Records Request Transgender minors, their parents, and a doctor challenging North Carolina’s gender-affirming care ban for youths can’t block lawmakers’ request for mental-health records of nonparty adolescents treat...

Have any of my health law friends seen this weird decision out of North Carolina about not protecting trans kids’ medical records from discovery? As reported, it’s bizarre and worrisome, I was wondering if anyone might know what is actually going on with it. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

That’s so good!

This looks great! May I shamelessly self promote an adjacent article I wrote a few years ago that contexualizes how medical necessity sits within a broader power imbalance? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Adding, I had to go to NYC for a procedure because no one could do it in Columbia SC. And had to wait months.

Pretty much everyone who has to access healthcare has to wait, if they are lucky enough to either have a doctor or find a qualified provider who is taking new patients. I like the data in this set because it is pretty straightforward. assets.ctfassets.net/4f3rgqwzdznj...

That is an awesome article, but I thought I saw someone refer to claims denials as a form of medical violence,that’s the framing that’s blowing my mind right now, so clean and comprehensive. I might have actually made the leap myself, just wanted to be careful I wasn’t short changing someone else.