The United States Supreme Court and Health Law: The year in review

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 611-615

  Ruger, Theodore W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 27544493860     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2005.tb00525.x     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. See 29 U.S.C. §§1181-87 (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996), 42 U.S.C. §1395dd (Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act), and 29 U.S.C. §§1001-1461 (Employee Retirement Income Security Act).
2. 125 S. Ct. 2195 (2005).
3. See Chaoulli v. Attorney General, 2005 SCC 35.
4. 529 U.S. 598 (2000).
5. 317 U.S. 111 (1942).
6. 538 U.S. 721 (2003).
7. 531 U.S. 356 (2001).
8. See Raich, 125 S.Ct. at 2208 ("our task is a modest one" requiring only a judgment that Congress had a "rational basis for...concluding" that intrastate marijuana use affected interstate commerce).
9. See Raich, 125 S.Ct. at 2215.
10. 505 U.S. 833 (1993).
11. 410 U.S. 113 (1973).
12. 123 S.Ct. 1965 (2003).
13. 524 U.S. 624 (1998).
14. 500 U.S. 173 (1991).
15. Though Quebec law prohibited private health insurance, it did not prevent patients with means from paying providers directly out of pocket, a so-called "fee for service" arrangement.
16. In specific, one Justice who was the deciding vote grounded the right in the Quebec constitution but not the Canadian national constitution. The three other justices who formed the 4-3 majority would have held that the long wait times and prohibition on private insurance also violated the national charter.
17. Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905).
18. M. Tushnet, "Social Welfare Rights From the Right and the Left" (2005) (unpublished manuscript on file with author).
19. Chaoulli, at 2005 SCC 35, para. 255.
20. Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U.S. 702, 735 (1997).