N.Y. refuses to enforce Texas order against doctor over abortion pills
A county clerk cited the state’s shield law for declining to enforce a $100,000 judgment imposed in Texas against a New York health-care provider, setting up a likely showdown at the Supreme Court. By Brianna Tucker. Originally published in The Washington Post on...
Black Men’s Health Clinic & Harvard’s Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation Empower Rural Communities with Local Health Unit Resource
MANOR, TX (AUSTIN AREA METROPLEX) – The Black Men’s Health Clinic® (BMHC) and Harvard’s Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI), with the support of the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, have published a guide focused on empowering rural communities...
Psychedelic Exceptionalism: The Oregon Example
By Trevor Findley, Clinical Instructor. Originally published in The American Journal of Bioethics on January 13, 2025 This article adds to the developing discussion about how psychedelics should be regulated in the United States, and whether they warrant exceptional...
CHLPI Files Amicus Brief in Preventive Services Case Before Supreme Court
The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School (CHLPI) partnered with a team from Manatt to file an amicus brief on February 25 in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of several organizations representing people with chronic illness...
An upcoming Supreme Court case could make PrEP less affordable—does it have to?
BY Shalene Gupta. Originally published in Fast Company on February 24, 2025. Elizabeth Kaplan is quoted in this article. One of the most effective factors in containing the spread of HIV has been the widespread availability of preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP). A PrEP...
A Bridge to Health
Medicaid access, both pre- and post-release, is a promising path to ensuring that reentry is a genuine, lasting return to freedom. By Johnathon Card & Spencer Andrews. Originally published in Inquest on February 18, 2025. In the days and weeks following release...
2025: The View from the State Level – Health Care in Motion
In the span of less than one month the Trump Administration has signed multiple executive orders, some which seek to directly undercut and dismantle efforts to address health inequity and improve access to healthcare for marginalized groups. How will these policies...
‘The battle between states is ripe for a legal showdown’
Carmel Shachar ’10 discusses the rapidly evolving legal issues around telehealth care delivered across state lines By Elaine McArdle. Originally published in Harvard Law Today on Feb. 5, 2025. ast November, the State of Texas — which has a near-total abortion ban...
HIV Health Care Access Working Group Urges Congress to Reject Medicaid Cuts – Press Release
Medicaid is the most important source of health coverage for people living with HIV and critical to US national strategy to end the epidemic by 2030 February 6, 2025 – The Federal AIDS Policy Partnership HIV Health Care Access Working Group (HHCAWG), in collaboration...
What services are most at risk in the Supreme Court case challenging the ACA preventive care rule?
By Anu Dairkee, Clinical Fellow, and Elizabeth Kaplan, Director of Health Care Access
Under the preventive care rule of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) services with a grade A or B recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), services for women and children recommended by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and vaccines recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) are required to be covered free of cost for individuals whose health care is insured by non-grandfathered private insurance plans. The preventive care rule is one of the most popular sections of the ACA, it has received bipartisan support, and it helps to ensure that cost is not a factor when people decide to get or are prescribed preventive care. But a case that has been weaving its way through the U.S. justice system, Braidwood v. Becerra—which the Supreme Court plans to hear in 2025—is threatening the preventive care rule especially as it applies to the USPSTF. In a new chart, CHLPI compiles and analyzes the recommendations most at risk in this litigation.
