President Trump announced Neil Gorsuch as his Supreme Court nominee in late January 2017.  Judge Gorsuch, a 49-year-old federal appellate judge based in Colorado, currently sits on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.  His legal career reflects a rapid ascent to the upper echelons of the American judicial system.  After […]

Notwithstanding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 (“Obamacare” or “the ACA”), the 21st Century Cures Act is the largest health care innovation treatment-based American law in over a decade. Signed by President Barack Obama in December 2016 as one of his last major acts as the head […]

President Trump has publicly announced that pharmaceutical companies “are getting away with murder” with their drug price offerings. Prominent examples include, Mylan’s six fold price increase for EpiPens, Daraprim’s overnight increase from $13.50 a tablet to $750,  and Marathon Pharmaceuticals announcement that charging $89,000 a year for a drug that’s […]

On February 7, 2017, bipartisan members of the House of Representatives introduced the Veteran Urgent Access to Mental Healthcare Act to Congress. The current veterans’ bill under U.S. Code Title 38 only provides health care access to combat veterans who were discharged with an honorable status. The proposed bill purports […]

As biotechnology continues to advance, policies must catch up in order to properly regulate the safety and efficiency of technology. One of the popular and controversial advances in the scientific community is genome editing, which occurs when DNA is inserted, deleted or replaced in the genome of a living organism. […]