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    Many health care organizations made public commitments to become antiracist in the wake of George Floyd's murder. These actions raise questions about the appropriateness of health care's engagement in racial justice and social justice movements generally. We argue that health care organizations can be usefully thought of as having two roles: a functional role to care for the sick and a meta‐role as an organizational citizen. Fulfilling the role of citizen may require participating in the pursuit…Read more
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    Litigation Provides Clues to Ongoing Challenges in Implementing Insurance Parity
    with Haiden Huskamp, Lainie Rutkow, Howard Goldman, and Colleen Barry
    Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 6 (42). 2017.
    Over the past twenty-five years, thirty-seven states and the US Congress have passed mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) parity laws to secure nondiscriminatory insurance coverage for MH/SUD services in the private health insurance market and through certain public insurance programs. However, in the intervening years, litigation has been brought by numerous parties alleging violations of insurance parity. We examine the critical issues underlying these legal challenges as a framew…Read more
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    Should Lack of Social Support Prevent Access to Organ Transplantation?
    with Keren Ladin and Norman Daniels
    American Journal of Bioethics 19 (11): 13-24. 2019.
    Transplantation programs commonly rely on clinicians’ judgments about patients’ social support (care from friends or family) when deciding whether to list them for organ transplantation. We examine whether using social support to make listing decisions for adults seeking transplantation is morally legitimate, drawing on recent data about the evidence-base, implementation, and potential impacts of the criterion on underserved and diverse populations. We demonstrate that the rationale for the soci…Read more