HealthCare.gov: Please Stand By…We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties

Will McIntireOct 31, 20134 min read
HealthCare.gov, the online marketplace for enrolling in the health insurance exchanges implemented by the 2010 PPACA, has left the Obama administration with egg on its face after sputtering to life on October 1, 2013. A series of technical glitches has brought unwanted attention to an already beleaguered initiative and has […]

A Few Ways the Shutdown Jeopardized Your Health

Will McIntireOct 16, 20135 min read
Now that the budget impasse that stagnating swaths of the federal government appears to have ended (Washington Post), it is worth considering what lessons might be learned from the shutdown—in particular, the shutdown’s effect on the health of Americans. The enforcement of food safety was diminished. The FDA conceded at […]

Forcibly Medicating Mentally Ill Death Row Inmates

Harini KidambiOct 9, 20133 min read
First year law students are taught the basic theories of punishment in their Criminal Law classes within the first week — deterrence, rehabilitation, isolation, education, and retribution.  These relatively straightforward concepts seem simple enough until they are complicated by obstacles that exist solely outside of textbooks and in the real […]

USDA Certified: Born And Raised in_______?

adminOct 8, 20134 min read
Do you want to know where your food came from? Well, Congress made this really COOL law in 2002 that gives you all the information you want right at your fingertips. COOL (Country of Origin Labeling) was signed into law as part of the 2002 Farm Security and Rural Investment […]

Telemedicine in Rural Communities

Leyla Mansour-ColeOct 5, 20134 min read
Imagine you live in a small rural community in northern Montana with no more than a thousand residents, each of whom lives miles from the next. Your child becomes ill with a sudden high fever and you don’t know what to do.  Just five years ago, this situation would have […]