U. S. Healthcare: A Discussion with Public Health Law and Policy Expert Prof. James G. Hodge, Jr.

The New York County Lawyers Association is proud to present our latest episode of the NYCLA Amicus Curiae podcast with host Daniel K. Wiig. Our guest is Prof. James G. Hodge, Jr., and the topic of our discussion is the United States healthcare system.

• Is healthcare a right or a privilege?

• Should our tax dollars underwrite the cost of those experiencing poverty?

• Do vaccine mandates impede on Americans' constitutional rights?

• What about religious exemptions? Where do we stand?

• What are the implications of the Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo on public health policy?

Listen as Daniel sat down with Prof. Hodge to elucidate the U.S. healthcare system and its challenges. They discuss the legal implications of recent SCOTUS decisions and the Constitution; Medicare and Medicaid; vaccinations; and the obvious win in addressing consumable vices. This discussion explains the complicated and multifaceted subject of healthcare in the United States. This is an episode you do not want to miss. Listen now!

 

More About James G. Hodge, Jr. 

James G. Hodge, Jr., is the Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and Director of the Center for Public Health Law and Policy at Arizona State University. Prof. Hodge has published more than 300 articles in journals of law, medicine, public health, and bioethics; 2 books in public health law; 25 book chapters; and guest-edited four symposium issues in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Jurimetrics, and the Annals of Health Law. He is ranked above the top 1% of downloaded authors in the Social Science Research Network.

Professor Hodge is a national expert on emergency legal preparedness, crisis standards of care, vaccination laws, public health information privacy, and other topics. Before joining the College of Law in 2009, he was a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, and a core faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.