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Compromise: If you are Congress, it’s what you do

February 24, 2017 ACA, Affordable Care Act, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Cedric Dark, health policy, Healthcare, Insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, Uninsured

Some believe the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is destined for failure and that rising prices in the individual market indicate it has entered a death

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The new Common Rule: Relief and unresolved questions

February 15, 2017 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Christi Guerrini, common rule, department of health and human services, law

Research involving human subjects has changed dramatically over the last 25 years, so it makes sense that the regulations governing it would need to evolve

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The limits of compassion: Dialysis and the undocumented – A solution

February 10, 2017 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dialysis, Emergency Medicine, Javier Santiago, medical students, Narrative Medicine, policy, Undocumented Immigrants, Victoria Mitre

Editor’s note: This post is the second part of a two-part series. Read part one. Over the past half-century, significant legal roadblocks to providing healthcare services

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The limits of compassion: Dialysis and the undocumented – The problem

February 8, 2017 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dialysis, Emergency Medicine, Javier Santiago, medical students, Narrative Medicine, policy, Undocumented Immigrants, Victoria Mitre

Editor’s note: This blog post is the first part of a two-part series. Mr. H and I shared stories in his hospital room on a

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Examining public resistance to global genomic data sharing

February 1, 2017 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, data sharing, genome, Global Health, globalization, Mary Anderlik Majumder, public opinion

Maybe you emigrated from another country or have family members who did so; or perhaps you were inspired by a visit to the United Nations

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‘Let Me Down Easy’: Play highlights end-of-life decision making

January 25, 2017 Advance Care Planning, Anna Deavere Smith, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Amy McGuire, ethics, Let Me Down Easy

“What you are will show, ultimately. Start becoming what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.” -Anna Deavere Smith Quality of

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Licensing ‘CRISPR’ patents to promote public interests

January 18, 2017 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Christi Guerrini, CRISPR, patent

Designer babies. Super soldiers. Unstable ecosystems. These are just a few of the feared outcomes from uncontrolled application of the new gene-editing technology known as

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Life played richly: Learn to live a life of fulfillment

January 11, 2017 Anna Deavere Smith, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Christopher Scott, Dr. Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, ethics

In her critically acclaimed one-person show, Let Me Down Easy, Anna Deavere Smith re-enacts interviews with people observing the rich identity of the human body,

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Freestanding emergency departments: Potential lessons for policy makers

January 6, 2017 acute care, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Emergency Medicine, health policy, Matthew Stampfl, medical students

Matthew Stampfl, a second-year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine, recently addressed the following question: “Can freestanding emergency departments expand access to acute care

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The return of the house call

December 27, 2016 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Chris Frey, health policy, medical students, Readmissions

As the population ages, the medical needs of the oldest and most infirm are projected to greatly weigh on America’s healthcare system. In an attempt to