4/20/18  //  Commentary

The Court of Federal Claims has certified a class action brought by insurers to recover the cost-sharing payments that President Trump unceremoniously terminated. Its rationale suggests that the United States could be held liable for tens of billions of dollars.

3/9/18  //  Commentary

The Trump administration won't look the other way as Idaho ignores the Affordable Care Act. But it's hoping to adopt a rule that will allow Idaho to achieve the same goal by other means.

3/7/18  //  Commentary

The opioid litigation may be the starkest example yet of the power of large multi-district litigations and the unorthodox role that judges assume in them.

3/5/18  //  Commentary

A group of 20 states argues that the entire ACA should be invalidated. The litigation doesn't have legs, but will the Justice Department defend the law?

2/22/18  //  Commentary

Idaho is flouting the Affordable Care Act. Will the courts do anything to stop it?

2/15/18  //  Commentary

On a new episode of Versus Trump, Easha and Jason discuss a new lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration's approval of Kentucky's new rules for its Medicaid program. The new rules will require some Medicaid recipients to work 20 hours per week to receive health benefits, and they also impose other novel requirements. Listen now!

2/6/18  //  Commentary

The President's latest healthcare tweet is an example of how his own policy preferences are inconsistent, in a way that will prevent him from accomplishing his own stated goals.

12/18/17  //  Commentary

A district court has stopped the Trump administration's hasty and poorly justified effort to relieve employers of their legal obligation to cover contraception.

12/14/17  //  Commentary

Adopting mandates at the state level would help stabilize insurance markets, keeping premiums in check and forestalling coverage losses. And it's perfectly legal.

11/16/17  //  Commentary

Is the country really better off if millions of people forgo medical care, and millions more go bankrupt, so that corporations can pay lower taxes? That’s not a rhetorical question. Those are the stakes of the game.

10/31/17  //  Commentary

The Trump administration wants to relax the rule requiring health plan to cover the essential health benefits. But its proposal has some legal problems.

10/26/17  //  Commentary

On this week’s episode of Versus Trump, Easha and Charlie have a quick turn-around emergency pod to discuss an ongoing—wait, just now resolved—case filed by a pregnant 17-year-old girl in federal immigration custody who seeks an abortion. Easha and Charlie first talk about the procedural wrangling that this case has wrought and second about the legal claims in the case, which bring them into the exciting worlds of reproductive rights, immigration law, and international relations. Listen now!

10/19/17  //  Commentary

Yesterday, a group of 19 states asked a California district court to stop the Trump administration from cutting off the cost-sharing payments. Their lawsuit likely isn't meritorious.

10/18/17  //  Commentary

New bipartisan legislation to restore the cost-sharing payments would also make some changes to the rules governing ACA waivers. How substantial are those changes?

10/17/17  //  Quick Reactions

The President has not even tried to suggest that he is using his power in the law's interest. Rather, he has boasted that he is using his power to kill it