Article Title

The Body Politic: Federalism as Feminism in Health Reform

Authors

Elizabeth Y. McCuskey, University of ToledoFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This essay illuminates how modern health law has been mainstreaming feminism under the auspices of health equity and social determinants research. Feminism shares with public health and health policy both the empirical impulse to identify inequality and the normative value of pursing equity in treatment. Using the Affordable Care Act’s federal health insurance reforms as a case study of health equity in action, the essay exposes the feminist undercurrents of health insurance reform and the impulse toward mutuality in a body politic. The essay concludes by revisiting—from a feminist perspective—scholars’ arguments that equity in health insurance is essential for human flourishing.

Recommended Citation

Elizabeth Y. McCuskey, The Body Politic: Federalism as Feminism in Health Reform, 11 St. Louis U. J. Health L. & Pol'y (2018).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/jhlp/vol11/iss2/6