The question of whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) can proceed without the mandate that all US individuals purchase health insurance or pay a penalty if they don’t is just one of several questions the Supreme Court will have to… Read More ›
Archive for March 2012
JAMA Forum: The Supreme Court Flunks Economics—and That’s Bad News for Patients and Physicians
This week, we were treated to the spectacle of the US Supreme Court debating economics. They called it a discussion about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but it was more economic than legal. They spent an enormous amount of time… Read More ›
Milk Protein Can Escape Detection in Processed Foods
Milk-protein residue may slip past the standard test used to detect it in processed foods, according to new research. As a result, millions of young children with milk allergy could unknowingly be exposed to milk proteins that will make them… Read More ›
Author Insights: Cost Has Small Impact on Children’s Use of Asthma Medication
When insurance companies pass a larger share of the costs of asthma medications along to families, children aged 5 years or older use slightly less medication and are hospitalized more frequently, report researchers in this week’s JAMA. But such cost… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: Listening to History in the Making
“The revolution will not be televised,” poet-musician Gil Scott Heron famously said, and apparently neither will the US Supreme Court case reviewing whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is constitutional. About a week before the historic proceedings got under way… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: The Other Important Issue Before the Supreme Court—Medicaid Expansion
So much attention has been paid to the individual mandate that relatively few have bothered to focus on the other questions that will be debated tomorrow in front of the Supreme Court. One involves the expansion of Medicaid, and it… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: Dinner Conversations—The Health Care Law and the Supreme Court
Dinner conversation about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) can turn an otherwise lovely evening with friends into eye-glazing tedium. I feared I had been the catalyst for such a transformation a couple of weeks ago when my husband and I… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: What is the Economic Rationale for the Health Care Law’s Individual Mandate?
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of the individual purchase mandate, which requires most individuals to pay an annual tax penalty if they do not have health insurance by 2014. While some have portrayed the… Read More ›
Sleep Duration—Too Long or Too Short—Appears Linked With Cardiovascular Problems
Chicago—Getting the proper amount of sleep appears protective against experiencing heart problems or stroke. At today’s scientific session of the American College of Cardiology here in Chicago, researchers presented findings suggesting that those sleeping less than 6 hours of sleep… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: The Supreme Court and the Health Care Law — Constitutional Ripples Will Affect the Election and Beyond
Florida v HHS, a suit brought on behalf of 26 states challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is a crucial event—crucial because upholding the ACA is critical to the US Constitution and to a humane social policy,… Read More ›
