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Health Care Reform Implementation Update - May 15, 2013

by Mark Alderman | Cozen O'Connor on 5/16/2013

Last week the Senate agreed to vote on Marilyn Tavenner’s nomination to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced an initiative that will give...more

Full U.S. Supreme Court rejects application challenging NLRB recess appointments

by Barbara S. Mishkin | Ballard Spahr LLP on 2/7/2013

On Tuesday, we reported that attorneys for a Connecticut nursing home company were attempting to have an emergency application challenging the constitutionality of President Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor...more

Commento a dichiarazioni di Mario Monti sul finanziamento del SSN

by Nicola Carmine Salerno on 12/10/2012

Commento di Fabio pammolli e Nicola C. salerno a dichiarazioni di Mario Monti sul finanziamento del SSN...more

A Short Course on the 11 Proposed Amendments to the Florida Constitution on the November 2012 General Election Ballot

by Carlton Fields on 10/19/2012

The Legislature has placed 11 proposed constitutional amendments on the ballot for the General Election to be held November 6, 2012. There will be no citizen initiated proposed constitutional amendments on the ballot this...more

Legal links of interest for the week ending July 28

by Steven Getman on 7/28/2012

Attorney Steven Getman reports on a number of stories about the law and lawyers in the news this week: • Addressing threats to an independent judiciary • How colleges suppress free speech • Federal...more

Facilities May Have Duty To Issue Photo Identification To Comply with PA Voter ID Law

by Ballard Spahr LLP on 7/26/2012

Pennsylvania’s controversial Voter ID Law may activate a new duty for nursing homes, personal care homes, and assisted living residences to issue photo identification to residents if necessary to enable them to...more

Obamacare’s Federal Subsidies Challenged by Conservatives

by Lawyers.com on 7/25/2012

Less than a month after a Supreme Court ruling that upheld most of the controversial health care reform law, an academic paper is challenging the legality of federal subsidies designed to help low-and middle-income...more

Independence Day: Time Also to Celebrate Fair and Impartial Courts

by Lane Powell PC - Health Care Law on 7/25/2012

Lane Powell Counsel to the Firm Matt Claman authored a July 4 Alaska Dispatch article titled “Independence Day: Time Also to Celebrate Fair and Impartial Courts.” In the article, Claman discussed the U.S. Supreme Court’s...more

Federalismo o Iperlocalismo nelle Riforme italiane?

by Nicola Carmine Salerno on 7/16/2012

Sono passati quasi dodici anni dal D. Lgs. n. 56-2000, il primo atto normativo che ha tentato di reimpostare il finanziamento e la governance della sanità su basi federaliste. Da allora, il Legislatore è...more

Access to Abortion Services Blocked or Limited by State Laws

by Lawyers.com on 7/13/2012

A federal judge has indefinitely extended his injunction of a new Mississippi law that requires abortion clinic physicians to be board-certified OB-GYNs and to have patient-admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. The law...more

Nina Totenberg: SCOTUS Secrets, Leaks & Pizza with Scalia [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 7/12/2012

July 11 (Bloomberg Law) -- U.S. Supreme Court justices are "really worried" about leaks, NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg tells Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia. Media reports about Chief Justice John Roberts...more

Round Two: Congress Reacts to the SCOTUS ACA Ruling by Thomas J. Spulak and Allison F. Kassir

by King & Spalding on 7/9/2012

Like most things in Washington today, no debate ever really ends, with the losers vowing to fight on and looking to find opportunities to snatch defeat from the opponent’s jaws of victory. For example, critics of the...more

An Insider’s View - The Supreme Court Ruling on Health Care By Robert L. Ehrlich

by King & Spalding on 7/6/2012

It was a great day at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Progressives of all stripes celebrated a surprising victory in a Court they love to hate. Even the losing Commerce Clause argument could not ruin their day. But the old axiom...more

Obamacare Myths Debunked

by Lawyers.com on 7/6/2012

When the Supreme Court upheld the controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act last week, the rhetoric started flying fast and furious. In lieu of debating the actual merits and policy of the health care law, its...more

This Week in Washington - June 29, 2012

by Patton Boggs LLP on 7/3/2012

DOMESTIC POLICY MATTERS - U.S. Supreme Court Decisions. On Thursday, the Supreme Court essentially upheld the health care reform law, including the individual mandate requiring health insurance, by a vote of 5 to 4. ...more

Is North Carolina Ready For The Affordable Care Act?

by Brooks Pierce on 7/3/2012

If you are wondering what North Carolina has to do to comply with the Affordable Care Act now that the Supreme Court has said it passes constitutional muster, there are better places to look than my blog. But there's an...more

Supreme Court Upholds Health Reform Coverage Mandate

by Poyner Spruill LLP on 7/3/2012

Last Thursday, we all heard the big news. The 2010 health care reform law survived its encounter with the Supreme Court virtually intact. With the constitutionality of the individual coverage mandate now settled,...more

Analysis of Supreme Court’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Cases

by Ropes & Gray LLP on 6/29/2012

In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court yesterday upheld key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), while at the same time stressing the limits of federal regulatory authority. The most...more

Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare

by Lawyers.com on 6/28/2012

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled today to uphold most of the provisions of the controversial 2010 federal health care law, including allowing the individual mandate requiring all Americans to purchase health care...more

Government Relations Alert: In a 5-4 Decision, United States Supreme Court Upholds Obama's Health Care Overhaul.

by Leonard, Street and Deinard on 6/28/2012

This morning the United States Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as "Obamacare." The ruling means that the ACA, including the individual mandate that virtually...more

Goldstein: What Conservatives Won in the Health Care Case [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 6/28/2012

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Medicaid eligibility may have given states rights advocates an opportunity to challenge other statutes, according to Tom Goldstein, founder of SCOTUSblog and a High Court litigator. The...more

Care Facilities May Have Duty To Issue Photo IDs in Wake of New PA Voter ID Law

by Ballard Spahr LLP on 6/7/2012

For personal care homes in Pennsylvania, the state’s new Voter ID Law may unexpectedly be the impetus for a new duty to issue photo identification to residents if necessary to enable the residents to vote. ...more

Spending Review e Universalismo Selettivo. La Sanità in Italia

by Nicola Carmine Salerno on 5/12/2012

Il primo passo obbligato per la spending review in sanità è l'inserimento di principi di selettività nell'offerta delle prestazioni. Dall'universalismo assoluto all'universalismo selettivo....more

Scala del Paygo e riforma del welfare e degli ammortizzatori del mercato del lavoro

by Nicola Carmine Salerno on 4/18/2012

I dati elaborati a partire dal Programma di Stabilità mostrano come, per dedicare al mercato del lavoro risorse ‘fresche’ e strutturali raccolte tramite la ripartizione, non si possa fare a meno di liberare...more

This Week in Washington - April 6, 2012

by Patton Boggs LLP on 4/13/2012

In This Issue: - DOMESTIC POLICY MATTERS Congress is in recess, returning April 16th. Late last week, newly-appointed Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough released a procedural opinion that last summer’s...more

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Health Care Reform Implementation Update - May 15, 2013

Full U.S. Supreme Court rejects application challenging NLRB recess appointments

Commento a dichiarazioni di Mario Monti sul finanziamento del SSN

A Short Course on the 11 Proposed Amendments to the Florida Constitution on the November 2012 General Election Ballot

Legal links of interest for the week ending July 28

Facilities May Have Duty To Issue Photo Identification To Comply with PA Voter ID Law

Obamacare’s Federal Subsidies Challenged by Conservatives

Independence Day: Time Also to Celebrate Fair and Impartial Courts

Federalismo o Iperlocalismo nelle Riforme italiane?

Access to Abortion Services Blocked or Limited by State Laws

Nina Totenberg: SCOTUS Secrets, Leaks & Pizza with Scalia [Video]

Round Two: Congress Reacts to the SCOTUS ACA Ruling by Thomas J. Spulak and Allison F. Kassir

An Insider’s View - The Supreme Court Ruling on Health Care By Robert L. Ehrlich

Obamacare Myths Debunked

This Week in Washington - June 29, 2012

Is North Carolina Ready For The Affordable Care Act?

Supreme Court Upholds Health Reform Coverage Mandate

Analysis of Supreme Court’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Cases

Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare

Government Relations Alert: In a 5-4 Decision, United States Supreme Court Upholds Obama's Health Care Overhaul.

Goldstein: What Conservatives Won in the Health Care Case [Video]

Care Facilities May Have Duty To Issue Photo IDs in Wake of New PA Voter ID Law

Spending Review e Universalismo Selettivo. La Sanità in Italia

Scala del Paygo e riforma del welfare e degli ammortizzatori del mercato del lavoro

This Week in Washington - April 6, 2012

Nina Totenberg: SCOTUS Secrets, Leaks & Pizza with Scalia [Video]

Goldstein: What Conservatives Won in the Health Care Case [Video]

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