Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 08/10/2025For 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 072
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Eye-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...healthaffairs.org 020
Reposted by Gregg BlocheHealthBegins @healthbegins.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Standing 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 141
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Just 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" www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...healthaffairs.orgWhen Should Federal Health Professionals Disobey Orders? | Health Affairs ForefrontHealth professionals need to be ready to say “no,” in the interest of the nation’s health, their own morale and well-being, and democratic mechanisms of public decision-making. Professional organizati... 020
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Please join the Urban Institute Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity. 131
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Please access our website for webinars and other information on the Urban Institute-Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity and the Law www.law.georgetown.edu/urban-instit...law.georgetown.edu 021
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 10/07/2025georgetown-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2_piFyvE42UV...georgetown-dot-yamm-track.appspot.comKnow Your Rights: Health Care Providers & Immigration EnforcementInformation for health care providers on how to prepare for and respond to enforcement actions by immigration officials and interactions with law enforcement. 021
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 10/07/2025drive.google.com/open?id=1Lyj... Reposting Article on Health Regulation at Risk: The Supreme Court and Women's Health so that it is accessible 000
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Important article on Health Regulation at Risk: The Supreme Court and Women's Healthhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1I_dRxyaHCwMp5kPvi8mDnpOSQLGkNG85eOo_1OkZhUQ?usp=drive_fs 122
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Such 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...healthaffairs.orgRemembering Susan F. Wood, A Woman Who Dared | Health Affairs ForefrontSusan was a scientist, a biologist by training. Her unwavering faith in scientific inquiry was her guiding compass. She dedicated her career to applying scientific evidence to health policy decision m... 010
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Rule-of-Law plays with a 2 handicap on this SCOTUS ⛳️🏌️♂️ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comRead Justice Samuel Alito’s Dissent in the Alien Enemies Act CaseJustice 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. 021
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Listen to this piece - it’s important: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comThe Emergency Is HerePodcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 04/17/2025 · 1h 12m 010
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Kudos 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...abovethelaw.comGeorgetown Law Student Group Calls Skadden Cowards, Opts Out Of Recruitment Event - Above the LawGeorgetown continues to be ranked #1 in cojones. 021
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Medical 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... 043
Reposted by Gregg BlocheUrban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Proposed 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. #LiveatUrbanurban.orgDownsizing Medicaid: How Proposed Cuts Could Endanger Health Insurance for Low-Income AmericansThe 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... 055
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Family 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...paulhastings.comBrad Bondi | Paul Hastings LLPBrad 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... 000
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Join 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 1127
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 26/02/2025A pioneer, a giant, & an inspiration! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...nytimes.comAlvin F. Poussaint, 90, Dies; Saw Racism Affecting Black Mental HealthA psychiatrist at Harvard and an adviser to Jesse Jackson and Bill Cosby, he challenged Black Americans to stand up to systemic bigotry. 000
Reposted by Gregg BlocheGeorgetown Law @georgetownlaw.bsky.social · 24/02/2025WEBINAR 🗓️| 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 053
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Launching 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... 001
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Critically-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...healthaffairs.orgHealth Care Institutions And Immigration Enforcement: An Ethical Imperative | Health Affairs ForefrontGiven the unprecedented potential for sweeping immigration enforcement actions that may include health care settings, health care institutions have an ethical responsibility to urgently prepare. 020
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 09/02/2025#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...youtube.comElon Musk’s $40 Million Super Bowl Commercials: DOGE Ads Unveil Government Waste!YouTube video by Trump Train YT 110
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Why? 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.comstatnews.comResearchers 'stunned' after HHMI abruptly cancels program to make science more inclusiveThe Howard Hughes Medical Institute abruptly ended a $60 million program to improve the retention of diverse college students 110
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Why we hate our health insurers—just posted: www.statnews.com/2025/02/05/h...statnews.comWe 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. 000
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 03/02/2025You'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...nytimes.comHealth Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign AidLifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work. 000
Reposted by Gregg BlocheTara Adams Ragone @tararagone.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Closing 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. 142
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 31/01/2025CDC just took down its Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance data - more Orwellian truth from the Trumpists: search.app/SLJXABqaAojr...search.app 110
Reposted by Gregg BlocheJed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 28/01/2025The unitary executive theory for an *unconditional* *absolute* presidential power to fire officers is a manufactured myth. I am ready w/ my amicus brief from SEC v. Jarkesy showing their anti-originalism & misuse of Founding-era sources. Who wants my help for free? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comAmicus Brief in SEC v. Jarkesy on Original Public Meaning of Article II & Presidential RemovalIn holding that the SEC’s administrative law judges’ protections against removal were unconstitutional, the Fifth Circuit extended Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB 29021
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Will Trump’s immigration crackdown put pressure on healthcare institutions to breach their ethical duties to patients? Worrisome possibilities loom. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...kffhealthnews.orgHealth Providers Gird for Immigration Crackdown - KFF Health NewsDifferent states are offering starkly different guidelines to hospitals, community clinics, and other health facilities for interacting with immigrant patients as President Donald Trump issues a flurr... 042
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Disciplinary action by professional societies & state licensing boards remains available as a response to these allegations, even if DoJ refuses to enforce the law www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...washingtonpost.comDOJ drops case against Texas doctor who shared transgender care dataEithan Haim was accused of leaking health records of patients at Texas Children’s Hospital. Haim, who calls himself a whistleblower, had pleaded not guilty. 044
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Powerful, tight summary of devastating Medicaid cuts planned by House Republicans -- explains how and why these cuts would effectively destroy Medicaid ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/20/h...ccf.georgetown.eduHouse Budget Committee Circulates New Detailed List of Budget Reconciliation Options Including Draconian Medicaid Cuts Within House Republican CaucusOn Friday, January 17, Politico and other news outlets reported that the House Budget Committee distributed to the House Republican Caucus a new 50-page list of mandatory spending and tax proposals… 040
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Stunning numbers just out—numbers of Black, Latino, & Native American medical students are down by double-digit percentages nationwide in 1rst medical school class chosen since Supreme Court ended affirmative action: www.aamc.org/news/press-r...aamc.orgNew AAMC Data on Medical School Applicants and Enrollment in 2024New AAMC data on applicants, matriculants, and enrollment for 2024-2025 000
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Yet another side to Jimmy Carter - he saw the vital connection between medical professionalism and human rights (this commentary accompanied an investigative piece I did on physician participation in torture) ... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comPhysicians and Human RightsWhen I was President, every US ambassador throughout the world was my personal human rights representative, and all American embassies were known to be havens for those being persecuted by their own l... 030
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 20/12/2024How Elon Musk turned "Stand Up to Cancer" into "Stand Up FOR Cancer" (& against kids) 010
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Delighted to announce the online launch of the Urban Institute/Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity (Brian Smedley, Yael Cannon, & I will co-direct) - we're engaging leading thinkers to craft remedies for our health system's profound disparities - more to come ... www.urban.org/projects/urb...urban.orgUrban Institute-Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity and the Law 192
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Invaluable guide to executive action Trump will/may take in health care: www.kff.org/potential-he...kff.orgPotential Health Policy Administrative Actions in the Second Trump Administration | KFFPotential health policy administrative actions under the incoming Trump administration based on campaign positions and statements by President-elect Trump, President Trump’s record during his first ad... 010
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Kudos to my Georgetown Law colleague, Dorothy Brown @dorothyabrown.bsky.social on her recognition as a Tax Notes "Person of the Year" for championing data-sharing that's critical for demonstration of racial inequity: www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...taxnotes.comPerson of the Year: Dorothy Brown, Champion for Change | Tax NotesDorothy Brown reflects on her time spent serving as a member of the Treasury Advisory Committee on Racial Equity and the committee’s ultimate success in advocating for Treasury to release regulations ... 020
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Insightful piece on states' efforts to limit private equity's distortion of medical judgment (by Rooke-Ley, Fuse Brown et al) www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...healthaffairs.orgCalifornia’s Failed Bid To Regulate Private Equity Investment In Health Care | Health Affairs ForefrontA vetoed California bill offers a case study for future legislative attempts to address private equity involvement in health care. It also offers a cautionary tale for how such efforts are susceptible... 010
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Arguably the most consequential health policy development in a generation — the demise of Chevron deference & the looming rebirth of the non-delegation doctrine www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comHow billionaire Charles Koch’s network won a 40-year war to curb regulationA seismic Supreme Court ruling on Chevron deference ushered in a new era of diminished federal power. The next Trump administration hopes to capitalize on it. 041
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Delighted to learn of Dick Allen’s much-overdue election to Baseball’s Hall of Fame. He endured shameful bigotry — and triumphed over it! www.nytimes.com/athletic/597...nytimes.comDick Allen, Dave Parker elected to Baseball Hall of Fame by era committeeThe Hall welcomed two dominant sluggers to its gallery on Sunday, with Allen and Parker gaining election through an era committee vote. 000
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Timely warning for Republicans — and those who voted for them 010
Reposted by Gregg BlocheKai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 06/12/2024If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while. So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet? Story here, 🧵 to come: 🧪#IDSkyscience.orgWhy hasn’t the bird flu pandemic started?Some scientists examining mutations found in H5N1 viruses fear major outbreak is imminent but others says pathogen remains unpredictable 641417671
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 04/12/2024As oral arguments in the #SCOTUS Tennessee #transgender care case wrap up, here's the most comprehensive review of the medical science: Hilary Cass's independent review of gender identity services, for the UK's National Health Service: cass.independent-review.uk/home/publica...cass.independent-review.ukFinal Report – Cass Review 110
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Powerful tool for learning who will lose health insurance if Trump & Congressional Republicans kill enhanced tax credits for purchasing coverage via the #ACA Insurance Exchanges: www.urban.org/data-tools/h...urban.orgWho Would Lose Coverage If Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire?The expiration of the pandemic-era enhanced premium tax credits risks leaving 4 million people without health insurance. 163
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Good review of how Trump could use executive power to make abortion access difficult, even impossible for many: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...kffhealthnews.orgTrump Doesn’t Need Congress To Make Abortion Effectively Unavailable - KFF Health NewsPresident-elect Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail not to sign a nationwide abortion ban. But he wouldn’t need to do so to make abortion difficult, or illegal, writes KFF Health News’ chief Wash... 031
Reposted by Gregg BlocheNorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024I served as a US ambassador and know hundreds of others Never met one before who hired a prostitute to seduce their brother-in-law or sent a videotape of the encounter to their sister Or who committed 18 felonies & was pardoned by another in-law I guess the job qualifications are changing… 865327767117
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Nice #HHS study by Bosworth et al re cost of #obesity drug coverage! Fitting for 🦃-day wknd! Missing, though, is assessment of cost of keeping patients alive longer (they'll spend more on healthcare later - economics earns its moniker, "the dismal science") #Medsky #obesity #Medicare 120
Gregg Bloche @greggbloche.bsky.social · 27/11/2024A must-read: just discovered this courageous, insightful piece by Walter O'Donnell MD, on the moral responsibilities of budget-cutting clinical administrators: www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1...nejm.orgReducing Administrative Harm in Medicine — Clinicians and Administrators Together | NEJMThe patient-safety movement has turned clinical medicine into a team sport, but administrators have been left off the team. The effects on patients of administrative decisions and changes therefore... 030