Brief for AARP as Amicus Curiae in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellees and Arguing for Affirmance

Amicus ("friend of the court") brief written by Genformatic, LLC in support of petitioners in AMP v. Myriad Genetics (Case Docket No. 2010-1406)

Winners and Losers in the Debate Over the Expansion of Medicare

Over its nearly sixty years, Medicare’s reach in terms of beneficiary groups and benefits has remained surprisingly stable, not for lack of attempts at expansion. This essay considers several of the most ambitious attempts at Medicare expansion, including adding benefits for prescription drugs, long-term care, and vision, dental, and hearing care. Some failures and some successful, these efforts considered in conjunction illuminate Medicare’s changing identity, drifting gradually yet fundamentally from its social insurance roots. Understanding the winners and losers in the debates over Medicare expansion reveals the changing political economy and collective understanding of Medicare as a cornerstone of the welfare state

The Roots and Branches of the Medical-Legal Partnership Approach to Health: From Collegiality to Civil Rights to Health Equity

This Article traces the roots of the medical-legal partnership (MLP) approach to health as a way of promoting the use of law to remedy societal and institutional pathologies that lead to individual and population illness and to health inequalities. Given current forces at work - the medical care and public health systems\u27 foctis on social determinants of health, the increased use of value-based medical care payment reforms, and the emerging movement to train the next generation of health care and public health professionals in structural competency - the time is ripe to spread the view that law is an important lens through which we should view health promotion, disease prevention, and overall well-being