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11 St. Louis U. J. Health L. & Pol'y 303 (2017-2018)
The Body Politic: Federalism as Feminism in Health Reform

handle is hein.journals/sljhlp11 and id is 333 raw text is: THE BODY POLITIC: FEDERALISM AS FEMINISM IN HEALTH REFORM ELIZABETH Y. McCUSKEY* ABSTRACT This essay illuminates how modern health law has been mainstreaming feminism under the auspices ofhealth 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'sfederal health insurance reforms as a case study of health equity in action, the essay exposes the feminist undercurrents ofhealth 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 essentialfor human flourishing. * 02018 Elizabeth Y. McCuskey. This essay is the product of the Mainstreaming Feminism project launched at the American Association of Law Schools 2018 Annual Meeting. It owes its impulse to the founders of that project, Brooke Coleman and Liz Porter, and to my co-panelists, Anastasia Boles and Linda Malone. Elizabeth Pendo and Nicole Porter also generously provided input. I dedicate this essay to the memory of my mother, Anne T. McCuskey-a warrior for human flourishing. 303