States, which have the primary legal role in regulating the prescribing and dispensing of prescription medications, have created Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP) to try to reduce inappropriate prescribing, dispensing, and related harm. Research assessing whether these interventions...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (“ACA”) requires most Americans to obtain health insurance for themselves and their dependents by 2014. In a recent essay, Professor Douglas Kahn and Professor Jeffrey Kahn take issue with one of several justifications for what has...