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The End of Public Health? It’s Not Dead Yet

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Environmental Protection Agency decision, which limited federal agency power to protect against environmental harms. The Court did so by building on decisions like National Federation of Independent Business v. OSHA , which limited federal authority to regulate worker safety with COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

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Is a Federal Medical License Constitutional?

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Most serious attempts at reform call not for federal control of telemedicine licensure or medical accreditation (a politically unlikely outcome), but for federal pressure applied to states to embrace licensure reciprocity or portability. Most such proposals rely on conditional spending, especially of Medicare funds.

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A Different Future Was Possible: Reflections on the US Pandemic Response

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But to focus on these failures risks forgetting the collective framing and collective policy response that dominated the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. This dangerously obscures what went wrong and limits our political imagination for the future of the COVID-19 pandemic and other emerging crises.

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