Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Time: 12-1 pm
Location: D1.600

On June 28, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision to uphold President Obama’s signature piece of legislation – the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Court held that the individual mandate was permissible under Congress’s taxing powers and that the Medicaid expansion was constitutional, though limited.

The law has several implications going forward, both in terms of several provisions already in effect and new provisions that will unfold over the next several years. How did the Supreme Court make its decision? What will this mean for Medicaid? What will this mean for public hospitals, private hospitals, doctors, patients, the uninsured, and our country?
Open to the public.

Participants:
Thomas Mayo, J.D.
Altshuler University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Associate Professor of Law
Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University
Adjunct Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical School

Jose L. Gonzalez, M.D., J.D., M.S.Ed.
Medical Director, Cook Children’s Health Plan
Former Medical Director, Texas Medicaid/SCHIP

W. Stephen Love
President and CEO, Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

Moderator:
Stephen Inrig, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Sciences (History of Medicine and Health Policy), UT Southwestern Medical School

Sponsored by:
UT Southwestern Division of Outcomes and Health Services Research; UT Southwestern Program for Ethics in Science and Medicine; UT Southwestern Public Policy and Healthcare Financing elective; UT Southwestern Medical Center Library