Epidemics invite “pariah-tization.” By this, I mean the process of stigmatizing one marginalized and impotent segment of society as being the group most vulnerable to the disease at hand- without reliable scientific basis. Doing so allows those in power, the young, the rich, the...

This piece of work will set out to answer the question of what the ethical and legal limits for the protection of aggregated health records for the purposes of public health promotion should be. I will begin by clarifying what are meant by health records and look at their uses in a healthcare...

This Article explores the background of the Louisiana Health Emergency Powers Act (“LHEPA”), including proclamations that have summoned its current applicability, historical development, and, most importantly, Lejeune v. Steck, the only reported case to date involving the LHEPA. The Author...

The World Professional Association of Transgender Health Standards of Care is widely adopted by medical and scientific organizations as medical consensus on gender confirming care. Despite the consensus within the medical and scientific community, the legal, political, and policy environments...

Background: Rising cancer drug prices pose a challenge for patients and healthcare systems in the US. Whilst prices are routinely assigned to a drug’s original indication receiving US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, the influence of supplemental indication approvals on prices...

This paper examines the tradeoffs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and incentivizes firms to invest in compliance technology. I study a large Medicare program that monitored for unnecessary...

Over eighty-five thousand Americans are currently on the national waitlist to receive kidneys, livers, hearts or other human organs due to the failure of their own. Sadly, over half of these people will die while waiting for the miracle of life to arrive. Some will travel to other countries to...

Over eighty-five thousand Americans are currently on the national wait list to receive kidneys, livers, hearts or other human organs due to the failure of their own. Sadly, over half of these people will die while waiting for the miracle of life to arrive. This tragedy is not due to...

Beginning in the 1960s, state legislatures across the country enacted consumer protection acts that “were originally designed to supplement the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) mission of protecting consumers from ‘unfair or deceptive acts or practices’ and are referred to as...