Doron Dorfman (@dorfmandoron.bsky.social)

@dorfmandoron.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 7:07 PMReposted by @dorfmandoron.bsky.social

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨
Thrilled to share my new article, Subordination Through Healthcare Reform, forthcoming in the Ohio State Law Journal!
It examines how OBBBA/H.R. 1 reshapes access to Medicaid and the ACA Marketplace through an anti-subordination lens. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

For more than a century, American healthcare policy has been shaped by a persistent tension between viewing healthcare access as a collective right versus a privilege hinged on individual deservingness. The healthcare reform initiated by the second Trump administration has clearly embraced the latter view. Yet it has not done so through the sweeping “repeal and replace” efforts that animated debate in the 2010s. Instead, the administration has pursued a more granular strategy of “death by a thousand cuts.” By targeting the technical rules encompassing public health insurance programs, including enrollment and eligibility procedures, caregiver payment rules, and cost-sharing structures, it has pursued the dismantling of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicaid, an effort that largely escapes public scrutiny despite being projected to produce devastating coverage losses.
This Article analyzes the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), also known as H.R. 1, through the prism of anti-subordination theory: a framework that focuses on how policies perpetuate social hierarchies and structurally disadvantage marginalized groups. The analysis focuses on two aspects of the current assault on healthcare access. The first is the sweeping fraud investigations targeting Medicaid’s Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) programs, coupled with cuts to federal funding for those programs, and explicit threats to reverse the shift from institutionalization to community-based living for people with disabilities. The second is the restructuring of Medicaid and ACA Marketplace enrollment, including new administrative burdens such as work requirements, periodic eligibility redeterminations, the repeal of Special Enrollment Periods for low-income enrollees, and new barriers to obtaining premium tax credits. This analysis makes two contributions. First, it shows how “mundane” regulatory changes can produce structural discrimination as harmful as sweeping “repeal and replace” efforts.

@dorfmandoron.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 4:25 PM

Fun times at the AALS Section on Law, Medicine and Healthcare, which I'm chairing this year! Love working w @laurenroth.bsky.social (Chair Elect), @ashascielzo.bsky.social (Secretary) & board members @profmohapatra.bsky.social & Anjali Deshmukh! Planing a fantastic program for the annual NYC meeting

A zoom meeting with 5 people of different genders and ethnicities.

@dorfmandoron.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 4:17 PM

My computer just reminded me that six years ago today, I was teaching Torts during the pandemic.

A man on a podium wearing a mask and gesturing with his hands.

@katmacfarlane.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 12:07 AMReposted by @dorfmandoron.bsky.social

Expulsion from a benefits program for supposed fakery never works. This is another facet of @dorfmandoron.bsky.social’s fear of the disability con work. The underlying premise here—that so many are undeserving of healthcare—breaks my heart. Imagine the interruptions and heartache this will cause.

@dorfmandoron.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 4:26 PM

More fun times at @cosellworklaw.bsky.social: Hearty congratulations to @matthewtbodie.bsky.social for winning the Miller Award for a senior scholar and to @michaelmoswalt.bsky.social for winning the Zimmer Award for a rising scholar! So well deserved 🥇🥇

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@dorfmandoron.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 8:51 PMReposted by @dorfmandoron.bsky.social

Having a blast @cosellworklaw.bsky.social @berkeleylaw.bsky.social! Participated in a great panel on the boundaries of employment law with @matthewtbodie.bsky.social Samantha Prince, Rip Verkerke & Tara Pomparelli, and received incredibly helpful feedback on my WIP on volunteerism & work law 🔥

A man at a podium in front of a panel of four other people and a powerpoint slide reading Work Law for Volunteers.

@dorfmandoron.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 8:51 PM

Having a blast @cosellworklaw.bsky.social @berkeleylaw.bsky.social! Participated in a great panel on the boundaries of employment law with @matthewtbodie.bsky.social Samantha Prince, Rip Verkerke & Tara Pomparelli, and received incredibly helpful feedback on my WIP on volunteerism & work law 🔥

@dorfmandoron.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 7:07 PM

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨
Thrilled to share my new article, Subordination Through Healthcare Reform, forthcoming in the Ohio State Law Journal!
It examines how OBBBA/H.R. 1 reshapes access to Medicaid and the ACA Marketplace through an anti-subordination lens. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

@jennoliva.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 10:16 AMReposted by @dorfmandoron.bsky.social

A huge thanks to Professor Amy Monagan @umnlawschool.bsky.social for this generous @jotwell.bsky.social review of my new article re: regulating healthcare coverage algorithms forthcoming in the @michlawreview.bsky.social

@juliametraux.bsky.social Sep 1, 2026, 5:28 PMReposted by @dorfmandoron.bsky.social

"The work and everyday labor of living with ME/CFS contains this recursive loop of everyday labor of being ill."

For @motherjones.com, I interviewed @elimrogers.bsky.social on her book tracing the history of ME/CFS and what it's like to be exhausted in America. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

motherjones.comThe relentless work of being sickA new book examines the labor of getting chronic illness diagnosed and treated—for those lucky enough to get care.