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• Health Care Financing Reform: (73) The Senate Bill Will Reduce the Cost of Non-Group Health Insurance

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       Mike Allen at The Politico has posted an article stating that Jonathan Gruber, an economist at MIT, has issued a report concluding that individuals will pay less for health insurance under the Senate health care reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act .      In two ...
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• Freedom of Speech: A Students Right to Insult Other Religions

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       Brandon Hensler of the American Civil Liberties Union recently posted an article  on the A.C.L.U. Blog of Rights reporting that the Florida chapter has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of public school students who wore tee-shirts to school and to a football game stating "Islam is of the Devil."  Do ...
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• Health Care Financing Reform: (72) Kaiser Family Foundation Side-by-Side Comparison of House and Senate Bills

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has posted a side-by-side comparison of the House and Senate health care reform bills, available here .      The report compares the two bills with respect to their overall approach to health care financing reform, the individual mandate to purchase insurance, ...
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• Health Care Financing Reform: (71) Are Filibusters Constitutional?

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       Absent the threat of a filibuster, health care reform would already have been enacted into law.  Are filibusters constitutional?      By itself, the "filibuster" is nothing more than an attempt to wear down the opposition through endless debate.  It is an annoying tactic whenever it is used by family ...
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• Health Care Financing Reform: (70) Savings in Medicare Advantage

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       One of the principal cost-cutting reforms that both the House and the Senate health care bills would enact is to reduce unnecessary spending on Medicare Advantage.  This is explained below.      Ezra Klein of the Washington Post described the problem with Medicare Advantage in an article that he ...
  6 days ago

• Health Care Financing Reform: (69) The Brookings Institute Study on "Bending the Curve" – Four General Strategies

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       In September of 2009 the Brookings Institute issued a study entitled " Bending the Curve: Effective Steps to Address Long-Term Health Care Spending Growth ."  I apologize for overlooking this report until now.  The recommendations from the report are set forth below.      It has been estimated that ...
  1 week ago

• Health Care Financing Reform: (68) Democrats Secure 60 Votes for Cloture

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       The Senate voted 60-39 this evening to cut off a filibuster, thus allowing debate on the health care bill that is pending in the Senate, the  Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act .  Links to news stories below.      On a straight party-line vote, the Senate voted for cloture on the ...
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• Federal Judge Declares DOMA Unconstitutional

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has found a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.       Judge Stephen Reinhardt issued a ruling Wednesday in the case of In the Matter of Brad Levenson in which he declared that a key provision of the Defense of ...
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• President Obama Responds to Yoani Sanchez, Cuban Blogger

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       Yoani Sanchez, a courageous Cuban blogger, reports in the Huffington Post that President Obama responded to seven questions that she had posed to him.   More below.      On November 6, Juan O. Tamayo of the Miami Herald reported that Yoani Sanchez was detained and beaten by Cuban state security ...
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• Health Care Financing Reform: (67) The Reid Bill and the CBO Estimate

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       Hallelujah!  Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-NV) has released the " Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act " – his melding of the health care reform bills that had been approved by the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate HELP Committee.  In addition, the Congressional Budget Office has ...
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• Health Care Financing Reform: (66) Mammography Guidelines from the USPSTF

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       The United States Preventive Services Task Force has issued recommendations against using mammograms for routine screening for breast cancer among women 40-49, and recommends screening only every two years after age 50.  What timing!      Is this panel trying to singlehandedly kill health care ...
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• 2009-2010 Supreme Court Term: (2) Court Refuses to Hear "Washington Redskins" Trademark Case

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       Earlier today the Supreme Court announced that it would not hear the case that had been brought against the owners of the Washington Redskins football team challenging their use of the name "Redskins" as a trademark.  The issue in the case was not the First Amendment or even the substance of Trademark Law; ...
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• Health Care Financing Reform: (65) Business Roundtable Report Supports Senate Finance Committee Plan and Opposes Public Option

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       The Business Roundtable has issued an enlightening and informative report on health care financing reform.  The Roundtable is concerned primarily with reducing the cost of health care, not with expanding coverage to the uninsured.  The Roundtables position and the contents of the report are summarized ...
  2 weeks ago

• Health Care Financing Reform: (64) CMS Report on H.R. 3962 – Expanded Coverage, No Effect on Total Cost of Health Care

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services has released its report on the effect of H.R. 3962, the health care reform bill adopted by the House of Representatives.  There is very good news and very bad news.        Here is a link to the full report, " Estimated Financial Effects of the Americas ...
  2 weeks ago

• 9/11 Plotters to Face Death Penalty in New York Federal Court

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       Attorney General Eric Holder has decided to try five prisoners in the war on terror, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, on criminal charges in New York for the attacks of September 11.  They will face the death penalty.     Yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder released a statement in which he said: ...
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• Whats Bad for General Motors is Bad for the U.S.A. – Our Aging Population of Retirees

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       According to a recent summary from the Congressional Budget Office, because our population is becoming older and sicker spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid is set to explode and the resulting mountain of debt will overwhelm us.  Here are the depressing statistics.      The CBO has ...
  2 weeks ago

• ENDA – The Employment Non-Discrimination Act

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       In yesterdays post I described how there appears to broad support in favor of enacting ENDA – the law that will prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.  In this post I sketch out the provisions of the proposed federal law.      The heart of the ...
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• Increasing Support for Proposed Laws Prohibiting Employment Discrimination on Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity is moving through both houses of Congress.  A similar law in Salt Lake City picked up unexpected support from the Church of Latter-Day Saints.      The ...
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• Health Care Financing Reform: (63) Commonwealth Fund Report on Primary Care

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       The Commonwealth Fund surveyed thousands of primary care physicians from several industrialized countries.  The findings help to explain why Americans pay so much more for health care but somehow have worse health than the people of other countries.      The study surveyed 10,000 primary care ...
  2 weeks ago

• Abortion Analogies

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       The enactment of the Stupak Amendment as part of the health care bill reawakens the debate over abortion.  Both sides invoke arguments by analogy in support of their positions on abortion and abortion funding.  I find a third analogy to be more fitting – one that supports the Supreme Courts position that ...
  2 weeks ago

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