Benjamin A. Barsky

Jan 8, 2025 | harvardlawreview.org | Michael Stein |Benjamin A. Barsky |Lisa I. Iezzoni

June 2024 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) decision in Olmstead v. L.C. holding that the unnecessary institutional segregation of people with disabilities constitutes discrimination. Olmstead established the principle that people with disabilities must receive state-funded supports in the “most integrated settings” — that is, within the communities where they live.

Jan 7, 2025 | harvardlawreview.org | Michael Stein |Benjamin A. Barsky |Lisa I. Iezzoni

Author Lisa I. Iezzoni Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, MSc is Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and based at the Health Policy Research Center, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Iezzoni has conducted numerous studies examining the health care experiences of persons with disability, focusing on primary, reproductive health, and cancer care. She has also explored home-based supportive services.

Jan 7, 2025 | harvardlawreview.org | Michael Stein |Benjamin A. Barsky |Lisa I. Iezzoni

Author Benjamin A. Barsky Benjamin A. Barsky is Associate Professor of Law at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco and Consortium Advisory Board member of the UCSF-UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy. Barsky’s work sits at the intersection of law, health care policy, and public health ethics.

Aug 2, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Benjamin A. Barsky |Michael Stein |Lisa I. Iezzoni

Over the coming decades, physicians in the US can expect to see more patients with disabilities as medical advances extend the lives of persons with complex congenital or early-onset conditions and as the population ages with a higher incidence of multimorbidities and functional impairments.

Apr 1, 2024 | ps.psychiatryonline.org | Benjamin A. Barsky |Morgan Shields

Evidence in the United States is mounting that the roles of police and clinicians are often blurred. Police have become de facto first responders in behavioral health crises, leading to hundreds of people injured or killed in recent years, and clinicians can direct involuntary hospital admissions and forced physical restraints to coerce and control patients.