Category: Healthcare Policy

Commentary by Jatin Roper, MD, PGY3, NYU Internal Medicine and Nitin Roper, MSIII, University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Pharmaceutical companies play a vital role in improving the public health through drug discovery. …

Commentary by Sandeep Mangalmurti MD, JD PGY-2

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Riegel v. Medtronic [1] the first of a series of cases that …

Commentary by Vlad Fridman MD, PGY-3

On July 30, 1965, then president Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law an amendment to the Social Security legislation establishing a national health care program for …

Commentary by Zackary Berger MD PhD, PGY-2, Health Care Policy Section Editor

Medical protocol and consent on trial in the New York Supreme Court.

In 2004, while working at a construction site, …

In this series, we are trying to cut through some of the media hype in order to summarize the health care proposals put forward by the leading candidates for President.

Commentary by …

In this series, we try to cut through some of the media hype and summarize the health care proposals put forward by the leading candidates for President.

Commentary by Aaron Lord MD, …

Welcome to the first post of our newest series. In this series, we’ll try to cut through some of the media hype and summarize the health care proposals put forward by …

Commentary by Sandeep Mangalmurti MD, JD PGY-2 

“Pay-for performance” is the broadly encompassing term used to describe recent efforts to restructure physician compensation so that rewards are commensurate to performance. Initially limited to …