Gregg Bloche

For a succinct explanation of the fight that's led to a government shutdown, join us this Friday: 📅 Oct 10 | 1–2:15 PM EDT:

"Rationing Medicine for America's Marginalized"
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/RationingMedicine

Organized by the Urban Institute/Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity

Eye-opening piece by Jill Horwitz @jillh.bsky.social & Mary Beckman on the threat that private equity's pursuit of short-term rewards poses to health care for the least-advantaged among us: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Standing up for what's right is harder to do now, but it's more important than ever before for health professionals to do this. #publichealth

When Should Federal Health Professionals Disobey Orders? www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore... @greggbloche.bsky.social @kerrywallace.bsky.social

Just out in Health Affairs: With former #AMA ethics chief David Orentlicher & Urban Institute fellow Kerry Wallace, I'm urging federal health professionals to disobey orders that violate medical ethics.

"Federal Health Professionals' Duties to Disobey"
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Please join the Urban Institute Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity.

Please access our website for webinars and other information on the Urban Institute-Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity and the Law

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Know Your Rights: Health Care Providers & Immigration Enforcement Information for health care providers on how to prepare for and respond to enforcement actions by immigration officials and interactions with law enforcement.

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Reposting Article on Health Regulation at Risk: The Supreme Court and Women's Health so that it is accessible

Important article on Health Regulation at Risk: The Supreme Court and Women's Healthhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1I_dRxyaHCwMp5kPvi8mDnpOSQLGkNG85eOo_1OkZhUQ?usp=drive_fs

Such a deeply-moving piece, just posted in Health Affairs, remembering Susan Wood, whose integrity & courage ought to inspire us in these surreal times www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Read Justice Samuel Alito’s Dissent in the Alien Enemies Act Case Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote that the Supreme Court’s decision to block the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants under a wartime law was premature.

Rule-of-Law plays with a 2 handicap on this SCOTUS ⛳️🏌️‍♂️
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The Emergency Is Here Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 04/17/2025 · 1h 12m

Listen to this piece - it’s important: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Kudos to our @georgetownlaw.bsky.social students for standing up & calling 'em out!

Georgetown Law Student Group Calls Skadden Cowards, Opts Out Of Recruitment Event - Above the Law Georgetown continues to be ranked #1 in cojones.

Kudos to @georgetownlaw.bsky.social & our students for putting it on the line for democracy! Or, as this piece put it, "Georgetown continues to be ranked #1 in cojones" abovethelaw.com/2025/03/geor...

Medical school acceptances for marginalized racial & ethnic groups are in sudden, steep decline. Join us Fri. March 21, 2 to 3:15 pm EDT, for discussion of the worrisome health implications & strategies for reversing this trend. Register in advance at: georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thanks so much, Sara Rosenbaum, @edwincpark.bsky.social Jenny Kenney, @chomilomd.bsky.social for your powerful, sobering presentations at this afternoon's "Downsizing Medicaid" event! We'll soon post the video @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @urbaninstitute.bsky.social

Downsizing Medicaid: How Proposed Cuts Could Endanger Health Insurance for Low-Income Americans The Urban Institute–Georgetown Law Series on Health Justice features conversations with researchers and legal professionals about how we can reduce widespread disparities in medical care and health in...

Proposed cuts to #Medicaid could endanger #health insurance for low-income Americans.

Join Urban on 3/10 @ 2:00 p.m. ET for a virtual event that will explore these cuts’ potential effects on the program and its more than 70 million beneficiaries. #LiveatUrban

Brad Bondi | Paul Hastings LLP Brad Bondi is Global Co-Chair of the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice at Paul Hastings and a nationally recognized litigation partner. He focuses on securities and financial investigat...

Family feud? From Pam Bondi's bro's law firm bio: "In 2021, he endowed the Bradley J. Bondi Diversity & Inclusion Scholarship Fund at the University of Florida...for law students who demonstrate a commitment to advancing the causes of diversity and inclusion." www.paulhastings.com/professional...

Join us online, Mon. March 10, 2 to 3:15 pm EDT, for "Downsizing Medicaid" - part of the "Urban Institute-Georgetown Law Series on Health Justice" Register in advance at: downsizingmedicaid.splashthat.com

Alvin F. Poussaint, 90, Dies; Saw Racism Affecting Black Mental Health A psychiatrist at Harvard and an adviser to Jesse Jackson and Bill Cosby, he challenged Black Americans to stand up to systemic bigotry.

A pioneer, a giant, & an inspiration! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...

WEBINAR 🗓️| Join @UrbanInstitute.bsky.social and #GeorgetownLaw on 2/26 for a virtual event on the conflict between care providers’ Hippocratic duty and immigration enforcement demands. Moderated by @greggbloche.bsky.social #healthjustice bit.ly/4kajeAl

Et tu, NAS?

Launching the Urban Institute--Georgetown Law Web Series on Health Justice! Wed. Feb 26, 12 to 1 pm ET: How should hospitals & clinics handle government demands that they assist in detaining unauthorized immigrants? Register at georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Seems Musk (or Fox?) didn't follow through on this - wondering about the backstory

Health Care Institutions And Immigration Enforcement: An Ethical Imperative | Health Affairs Forefront Given the unprecedented potential for sweeping immigration enforcement actions that may include health care settings, health care institutions have an ethical responsibility to urgently prepare.

Critically-important post from Julie Linton et al, just out, on how #healthcare institutions can resist pressure from #ICE & other immigration authorities to violate medical ethics (part of Health Affairs' "Ethics & Health Systems Change" series): www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

YouTube video by Trump Train YT Elon Musk’s $40 Million Super Bowl Commercials: DOGE Ads Unveil Government Waste!

#FlyEaglesFly tonight! But I'm not happy about Elon Musk's announcement a few hours ago that he's bought Super Bowl ads to promote his lawless #DOGE rampage www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISx...

Researchers 'stunned' after HHMI abruptly cancels program to make science more inclusive The Howard Hughes Medical Institute abruptly ended a $60 million program to improve the retention of diverse college students

Why? Bad legal advice? Irrational fear within the Howard Hughes Medical Institute? Some sort of vibe-shift? www.statnews.com/2025/02/06/h... via @statnews.com

We are all complicit in the big lie of health insurance “Insurers deliver the deception we seek — by promising to pay for ‘medically necessary’ care and telling us nothing about whether and how they weigh cost,” writes M. Gregg Bloche.

Why we hate our health insurers—just posted: www.statnews.com/2025/02/05/h...

Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.

You've perhaps already seen this, but please read it closely. The impact is devastating. The wanton cruelty is unfathomable. Unknowable numbers of kids & others will die as a result. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

Closing strong at @setonhallhealthlaw.bsky.social’s 9th Annual Health Law Works-in-Progress Retreat with @medlawdan.bsky.social’s “Privatization, Cancer, and the Individualization of Social Problems” with commentators Prof. Valerie Blake of University of Tennessee Law & @greggbloche.bsky.social.