SCOTUS Speaks: What the Supreme Court's Health Care Decision Will Mean for Americans

June 26, 2012 —

WHAT

"SCOTUS Speaks: What the Supreme Court's Health Care Decision Will Mean for Americans" (sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center and Health Affairs)

WHEN

Friday, June 29, 2012, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

WHERE

Georgetown University Law Center
Hotung Building, Room 1000
550 First Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
Please use Tower Green entrance.

MODERATOR

Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs; Contributor, PBS NewsHour

WHO

M. Gregg Bloche, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; Author, The Hippocratic Myth: Why Doctors Are Under Pressure to Ration Care, Practice Politics, and Compromise Their Promise to Heal

David B. Rivkin Jr., Partner, Baker Hostetler; Lead Counsel for the 26 states that challenged the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act

Sara Rosenbaum, Professor, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services; Directed the legislative drafting of President Clinton's health reform proposal

Louis Michael Seidman, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; Author, On Constitutional Disobedience (forthcoming)

Timothy M. Westmoreland, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; Senior Scholar, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law; former Director, Medicaid program; former Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Health and the Environment

NOTE

One day after the expected release of the Supreme Court's health care decision, a panel of leading constitutional and health law scholars, practitioners and commentators will offer their insights on the ruling's implications for millions of Americans - as well as for the health care and insurance industries, constitutional law and national politics.