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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 7d

I'm thrilled to announce that my most recent article, Delay, Deny, Tax, was just published on the Emory Law Journal Online! Abstract below, and, if it piques your interest, the whole thing is here: scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/elj-online/54/

Abstract
Health insurance companies are having a moment in the United States. Their moment involves widespread public objections to their seemingly random and increasing willingness to deny coverage and reimbursement to insureds. These denials are in large part not part of a program to improve health coverage but, rather, to reduce insurance companies’ expenses and, in turn, increase their profits.

There is broad consensus that something has to change. The public demands it. Bipartisan groups of senators and representatives have investigated it. Even the health care industry acknowledges that something needs to change. To actually make the health care system better requires more than easy or simplistic solutions. A long-term solution requires completely rethinking the way the United States provides health care. But while policymakers struggle to craft such a fundamental revision of the health care industry, denials by health insurance companies continue to hurt individuals.

Although this Article does not provide a comprehensive rethinking of the health care industry, it does propose a relatively simple interim policy that will ameliorate the problem of health insurance companies unnecessarily denying health coverage: an excess profits tax imposed on health insurance companies. While the putative purpose of insurance companies is to protect policyholders from unexpected and ruinous financial losses, internally, insurance companies function to earn a profit for their shareholders. To the extent an insurance company denies a claim—or even delays payment on that claim—it has increased its profits. The company, thus, has two competing incentives: On the one hand, its business involves paying for health care, but on the other, it is designed to provide a return to its shareholders. While it cannot ignore paying for policyholders’ health care, a health insurance company will likely face steep pressure to prioritize profits. Even though there is debate over whether shareh…

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Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social · 8d

www.usatoday.com/story/specia...

Timeless Biotech is Using an AI Software to Help Clinicians Delay Menopause and Promote Ovarian Longevity

By reframing ovarian health as a central driver of longevity rather than just a reproductive milestone, Timeless Biotech aims to bring AI-driven insights to healthcare in a scalable way.

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Lindsay Wiley @lindsaywiley.bsky.social · 9d

New from me in @statecourtreport.org @brennancenter.org:

Because Texas’s default judgment against Dr. Carpenter aims to punish her for the protection of public morality & future pregnant patients, embryos & fetuses, NY courts aren’t obligated to recognize it.

statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

New York Courts Should Reject Texas’s Attempt to Enforce its Abortion Ban Beyond its Borders

Precedent supports the refusal to enforce out-of-state civil judgments that punish an individual in the name of protecting the public.

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Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social · 9d

Case linked here : pacificlegal.org/wp-content/u...

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Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social · 9d

Interesting turf case on the use of “doctor/Dr” for doctorate nurses

www.beckershospitalreview.com/legal-regula...

California doctorate nurses can’t use ‘doctor&#…

A California federal judge has ruled that nurses with doctorates do not have the right to call themselves doctors. Here is what to know: 1. The case…

www.beckershospitalreview.com

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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 14d

Flagging this new TFAH report for other health policy/politics syllabi-updaters

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Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social · 9d

“Beneficiaries in EDs of private equity hospitals experienced 7.0 additional deaths per 10 000 visits after acquisition relative to control (13.4% increase from a raw baseline of 52.4 deaths per 10 000; P = 0.009)”

Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social · 9d

www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Hospital Staffing and Patient Outcomes After Private Equity Acquisition | Annals of Internal Medicine

Background: After private equity acquisition, hospitals may experience changes in staffing with implications for patients. Objective: To examine hospital staffing and patient outcomes in emergency dep...

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Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social · 9d

www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Hospital Staffing and Patient Outcomes After Private Equity Acquisition | Annals of Internal Medicine

Background: After private equity acquisition, hospitals may experience changes in staffing with implications for patients. Objective: To examine hospital staffing and patient outcomes in emergency dep...

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Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social · 11d

news.mit.edu/2025/new-ai-...

New AI system could accelerate clinical research

MIT researchers developed an interactive, AI-based system that enables users to rapidly annotate areas of interest in new biomedical imaging datasets, without training a machine-learning model in adva...

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Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social · 12d

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Latest 'Bluebook' has 'bonkers' rule on citing to artificial intelligence

Updated: If you are unsure about how and when to cite content generated by artificial intelligence, a new citation rule is unlikely to clear up the confusion, according to experts who spoke with LawSites.

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Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social · 13d

Amazing work!! Love this!!

Australian Academy of Science @science.org.au · 14d

The global pledge, already signed by over 150 organisations, is the first international effort to formally recognise clean indoor air as essential to health and well-being.

Learn more: bit.ly/461pNPq #UNGA80 #IndoorAir

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Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social · 15d

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?

Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 16d

Now out in print -- my essay with some thoughts on science and democracy in public health: repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcont... .

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Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social · 20d

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/17/1...

AI-designed viruses are here and already killing bacteria

Can AI create a life form? These “generative” genomes are a start

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Alexandra Lahav @alahav.bsky.social · 22d

If you want some descriptive statistics of litigation in the federal courts, my co authored article providing them is out in JELS!
doi.org/10.1111/jels...

No Adjudication

Using the complete record of all federal civil docket sheets for cases filed in a two-year period, recently made available by the SCALES-OKN project, we find that most cases that enter the federal sy...

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Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social · 24d

“To date, the administration has appeared to overlook the area of oncology drugs. The grand irony of Kennedy targeting vaccines is that he risks undermining an area in which FDA has accomplished some of its best work.” @medlawdan.bsky.social
www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/f...

Secretary Kennedy’s Vaccine Skepticism Is Misplaced: Try Cancer Drugs Instead | Health Affairs Forefront

HHS has a tremendous opportunity to ensure that both government and private insurers are paying for oncology treatments demonstrating clinically significant improvements in overall survival or quality of life.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 26d

And now sharing a draft of my Frankel Lecture: COVID and the Great Retrenchment. Not a happy story. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

COVID and the Great Retrenchment

<div> The past six years have seen at least two dramatic and stunning shifts in federal health and benefits policy. First, during the depths of the COVID

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Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hey Health Law Folks! Are you, or someone you know, looking to join a fabulous group of scholars? GSU Law invites entry and lateral candidates to apply for a tenure-track position in Health Law! /1

facultycareers.gsu.edu/postings/5807

Health Law Professor (Open Rank Tenure-Track)

Georgia State University College of Law invites entry-level and lateral candidates to apply for a tenure-track professor position in Health Law to begin no later than the 2026-2027 academic year. A su...

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Katherine Mims Crocker @crockeroncourts.bsky.social · 28d

Hi again! 👋 Now excited to be publishing this article with Wash. U. L. Rev. in 2026. Still getting a draft ready for SSRN but happy to email it if you'd like to provide early feedback!

Katherine Mims Crocker @crockeroncourts.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hi! 👋 I'm excited to have a new draft article--"Ex Parte Young Redux"--that analyzes Young doctrine after CASA. I argue that in limited circumstances like the challenge to Texas's then-unconstitutional S.B. 8 abortion ban, people should be able to sue (gasp) states themselves ⬇️

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28d

My new paper, The Crisis of Appropriations Law. Very much a draft -- and perhaps a little too timely. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Crisis of Appropriations Law

<p><span>Appropriations law is a unique body of federal law. Appropriations law imposes its own somewhat baroque set of statutory interpretation principle

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Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social · 29d

Really enjoyed reading this article, “The Craze for Legal Proceedings”: Another look at Schloendorff v New York Hospital in which Prof Paul Lombardo (GSU law) recontemplates the origins of the informed consent doctrine. scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcont...

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · Sep 5

I wrote a primer on access to COVID-19 right now. It's too long for here, so I put it as a Google Doc and it can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Explaining COVID-19 Vaccines Access in 2025-2026

I send a version of this to my faculty a few days ago, and since I'm still getting questions, I revised it to be not California specific and am posting it, hoping it helps: I've been getting a lot of...

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Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social · Sep 2

Want to come join me as the next Jaharis Faculty Fellow in health law and IP? Apply for the AY 2026-2027 cycle!

academics.depaul.edu/faculty-jobs...

Faculty Jobs | DePaul University, Chicago

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Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social · Sep 5

And one of the solutions will be…to design a bot that protects you from this. 🙃

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Lynette Martins @lynettemartins.bsky.social · Sep 5

This was my exact response when I read it.

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