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Exploitation Of The Elite: A Case For Physician Unionization, Dionne L. Koller Jan 2001

Exploitation Of The Elite: A Case For Physician Unionization, Dionne L. Koller

All Faculty Scholarship

Our intuition tells us that physicians are elites, and therefore they cannot be exploited. Relying on this intuition, we adopt policies which attempt to provide a health care system that gives first-quality care, at the lowest prices, delivered through a “free-market” system. As the key gatekeepers to health care, physicians are thus caught in the middle. Top-notch American health care costs money and for-profit MCOs must watch their bottom line. Rationing, therefore, is key. The issue is, assuming we have decided that free-market health care is the solution, how much should physicians have to sacrifice in the name of the …


The Teaching Of Legal Medicine In Medical Schools In The United States, H. Richard Beresford May 1971

The Teaching Of Legal Medicine In Medical Schools In The United States, H. Richard Beresford

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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