Health

The Price of Preserving Preventive Services Coverage

The Price of Preserving Preventive Services Coverage

The Supreme Court preserves preventive services coverage but emboldens the HHS Secretary.

How We Subsidize Care for Low-Income People

How We Subsidize Care for Low-Income People

A Supreme Court decision reveals flaws in how we pay safety-net hospitals—and why reform is overdue.

The Building Blocks of Global Health Security

The Building Blocks of Global Health Security

Lawrence O. Gostin discusses the importance of equity and science in the face of threats to global health security.

A New Era of Cosmetics Safety Regulation

A New Era of Cosmetics Safety Regulation

Scholars consider how the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act strengthens federal oversight.  

Making Drugs Affordable Through Personal Importation

Making Drugs Affordable Through Personal Importation

Personal importation is the fastest route to “most-favored-nation” drug pricing.

States Cannot Defend the ACA Alone

States Cannot Defend the ACA Alone

States can continue to support access to health care, but their efforts depend on federal support.

Tackling America’s High Drug Prices

Tackling America’s High Drug Prices

Scholars discuss policy approaches to lowering the price of prescription drugs.

Restoring FDA’s Premarket Review Powers

Restoring FDA’s Premarket Review Powers

Scholar proposes reforms to address deficiencies in FDA’s premarket review powers.

Increasing Transparency in the Biologic Patent Dance

Increasing Transparency in the Biologic Patent Dance

Scholars propose changes to patent disclosures under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act.

Regulating in the Name of Public Health

Regulating in the Name of Public Health

Mitch Zeller discusses the challenges of regulating to protect the public’s best interest.

Regulating At-Home Medicine

Regulating At-Home Medicine

Anna Wexler explains “do-it-yourself medicine” and how regulators can protect consumers using at-home medical therapies.

Regulating Health Care Plan Fiduciaries

Regulating Health Care Plan Fiduciaries

Scholars argue that the Department of Labor should exercise its overlooked authority to regulate health care plan fiduciaries.