December 5th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consumers saved nearly $1.5 billion in 2011 as a result of rules in President Barack Obama’s health care law that limit what insurance companies can spend on expenses unrelated to medical care, including profit, a new analysis shows. Continue reading »
November 29th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
Dean Blake D. Morant is among the 24 legal educators and one legal education public policy advocate The National Jurist has named to its 2012 list of the most influential people in legal education.
November 27th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
When the ACC voted in September to immediately raise its exit fee to three times its annual operating budget – around $50 million – the move was seen as an important step in maintaining the league’s future stability, a way to prove to its schools the strength of the conference and make it more difficult to sever ties.
November 20th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
The ‘Rewriting Homosexuality’ symposium, sponsored by Wake Forest law school as well as the Provost’s Office, the Humanities Institute, Women and Gender Studies, Office of Multicultural Affairs, the LGBTQ Center, and ZSR Library is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on April 19, 2013, in the ZSR Auditorium.
November 9th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
The Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of uninsured in America by more than half. And while this is a great achievement, the newly insured are still going to face challenges when it comes to access to adequate health care, according to Wake Forest Law Professor Mark Hall. Continue reading »
November 8th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
While many professors, students and faculty alike were enjoying some down time over this year’s fall beak, Wake Forest Law Professor Omari Simmons was using his extra days off to travel to Atlanta with 24 high-achieving high school students from nine area schools on a tour of colleges.
November 8th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Kate Mewhinney spoke on “Long Term Insurance” at the North Carolina Bar Association’s Elder Law Section CLE last Friday, Oct. 26, at the North Carolina Bar Foundation Center in Cary, North Carolina.
November 5th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
Extending Medicaid coverage to currently uninsured adults is likely to increase the cost of the program, according to health policy researchers, because those patients are prone to have more expensive health problems than nondisabled adults currently enrolled in Medicaid. Continue reading »
November 5th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
In the developments of the Jessica Ridgeway case that now resides in the courts, one person emerged as a tragic hero: the mother who turned in her own son. Continue reading »
October 31st, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
As the presidential candidates clash over the fate of the Affordable Care Act, a set of seven essays by leading legal experts, economists, and scholars examines the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision on the ACA and makes it clear that there is no consensus about what is economically or morally just when it comes to health care coverage in this country. The essays appear in the Hastings Center Report.* Continue reading »
