Last Year Was A Wild One For Health Law — What’s On The Docket For 2015?

Everywhere we look, we see the tremendous impact of new legal developments—whether regulatory or statutory, federal or state—on health and health care. These topics range from insurance to intellectual property to religion to professionalism to civil rights. They remain among the most important questions facing Americans today. This post is the first in a series that will stem from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event to be held at Harvard Law School on Friday, January 30, 2015. The conference, which is free and open to the public, brings together leading experts to review major developments in health law over the previous year, and preview what is to come. The event is sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the New England Journal of Medicine, and co-sponsored by Health Affairs, The Hastings Center, and the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. Below, we will highlight a few themes that have emerged so far. The conference’s speakers will author a series of posts that follow on more specific topics. The Affordable Care Act In January 2013 at the First Annual Health Law Year in P/Review, we reviewed National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the first examination of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by the Supreme Court. The opinion in that case, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, stunned many Supreme Court pundits and has greatly affected health insur...
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