Care costs and medical debt. Patient advocates and Health Care Officials testify this is. About an hour and 20 minutes. The committee of banking housing and urban affairs will come into order. Todays hearings a hybrid format. Our witnesses will testify in person. Thanks to all five of you for making the effort to be here. Some of you came as far from cleveland, so thank you for that. The members will virtually. Thinking of saying a loved one brush to the hospital in an ambulance or learning you have a chronic disease that is going to require years of k are and monitoring, these kind of medical ordeals or some of the scariest moments in a familys life. They can happen at anytime to anyone without warning. Suddenly, you are coordinating doctors visits and calls with insurance companies. You are nervously checking your savings account. Youre spending hours on in turnable phone calls trying to get answers. Youre dealing with it all while worrying whether your husband or your mother or your
Someone setting out to do this in a league of opportunity. But that leads to the second thing, which is i do worry that a leak as important as it is overshadows a decision that was leaked and then turned into law. I think your second point was mine, which is i think the fact of the league is so much less consequential than the content of the leak. And i think, to the extent that anyone whos questioning the Supreme Court, its not the fact that an opinion got out, but the fact that it is willing to just really make the law in its own conservative image. I think i might take a different take on that because the norms of the process is our trans substantive. So if you want to lead on this than, what about lower courts . What about confidentiality . Anywhere . So, im not institutionalist enough to think that yes, it shouldnt distract from the fact that dobbs is a major decision that revoked or read that existed for 50 years, but essentially if the Supreme Court can no longer do its work, th
That is the sternest you can imagine about confidentiality. It is an incredibly strong norm in the court because it is fraught enough without having to worry about these things. I would say two things. I clerked before the pandemic when most people work from their offices. We had laptops, but were not necessarily working from home. There is a greater possibility that the leak was maybe not intentional, or at least not the result of someone setting out to do this. More of a leak of opportunity. That leads to the second thing, i do worry that the leak overshadows the importance of the decision that was leaked. Your second point was mine. The fact of the leak is so much less consequential than the content of the leak. To the extent that anyone is questioning the Supreme Court is not the fact that an opinion got out, but the fact that it is willing to remake the law in its own conservative image. I might take a different take on it. The norms and the processes are trend substantive. If you