Amicus Curiae Brief in Health and Human Services v. Florida (Affordable Care Act Litigation) on Behalf of Tax Law Professors in Support of Vacatur

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan M. Barry ◽  
Bryan T. Camp
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Tax Law ◽  
Amicus Curiae ◽  
Health And Human Services ◽  
Law Professors

ObamaCare’s 2014 Report Card? Preaching Patience — to Supporters and Opponents

HPHR Journal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin D. Sommers ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Access To Care ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Open Enrollment ◽  
Report Card ◽  
Health And Human Services ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The Affordable Care Act ◽  
The U.S

The first open enrollment period under the Affordable Care Act has come and gone. One might be tempted to ask, “How has the law done so far?” — if only that question hadn’t already been asked ad nauseum since the first week of open enrollment in October 2013. As a researcher whose primary interests are insurance coverage and access to care (and as an advisor in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), I have frequently been asked this question – by students, by friends and family, and by reporters. Consider this my response.

Amicus Curiae Brief of Tax Law Professors in Support of Appellees

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Chodorow
Keyword(s):  
Tax Law ◽  
Amicus Curiae ◽  
Law Professors

scholarly journals What is the Meaning of Health? Constitutional Implications of Defining “Medical Necessity” and “Essential Health Benefits” under the Affordable Care Act

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 445-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Jessie Hill
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
Medical Necessity ◽  
Health And Human Services ◽  
Patient Protection ◽  
The Affordable Care Act ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Essential Health Benefits

When the government decides to assume a major role in providing and paying for healthcare, the government also has to decide exactly what constitutes appropriate, reasonable, or essential healthcare under its program. Congress, of course, recognized this necessity when it passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the statute itself provides authority to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to determine the “essential health benefits” that must be covered under the ACA beginning in 2014, both by insurers offering plans within governmentally sponsored exchanges and on the individual and smallemployer markets outside the exchanges. In a decision that was hailed as both “politically astute” and problematic for the goals that the ACA itself was supposed to accomplish, HHS shunted off the task of defining the term “essential health benefits” to the individual states.

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