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Beyond Repeal--A Republican Proposal For Healthcare Reform, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Beyond Repeal--A Republican Proposal For Healthcare Reform, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Timothy S. Jost
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Will Americans Embrace Single-Payer Health Insurance: The Intractable Barriers Of Inertia, Free Market And Culture, Susan A. Channick
Will Americans Embrace Single-Payer Health Insurance: The Intractable Barriers Of Inertia, Free Market And Culture, Susan A. Channick
Susan A. Channick
In a country that prides itself on equality of opportunity, why is there so little equality when it comes to healthcare? Why does the value of equality of opportunity not translate into social solidarity? This Article seeks answers to these questions. Risking the label of socialist, I posit that the most cost-effective, efficacious, and efficient solution to the health care mess that the United States is in is universal single-payer reform with the federal government as that payer. Part I examines the United States' current climate as it affects health care reform. In Part II, this Article scrutinizes recent state …
Can State Health Reform Initiatives Achieve Universal Coverage: Lessons From California’S Recent Failed Experiment, Susan A. Channick
Can State Health Reform Initiatives Achieve Universal Coverage: Lessons From California’S Recent Failed Experiment, Susan A. Channick
Susan A. Channick
This article is about the struggle toward health care reform. It looks at the mandated health care insurance model as well as the experiences of Massachusetts and California.
The Real Constitutional Problem With The Affordable Care Act, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
The Real Constitutional Problem With The Affordable Care Act, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Timothy S. Jost
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Professional Sovereignty In A Changing Health Care System: Reflections On Paul Starr's The Social Transformation Of American Medicine, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Keith Wailoo, Mark Schlesinger
Professional Sovereignty In A Changing Health Care System: Reflections On Paul Starr's The Social Transformation Of American Medicine, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Keith Wailoo, Mark Schlesinger
Timothy S. Jost
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Health Courts And Malpractice Claims Adjudication Through Medicare: Some Questions, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Health Courts And Malpractice Claims Adjudication Through Medicare: Some Questions, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Timothy S. Jost
No abstract provided.
Our Broken Health Care System And How To Fix It: An Essay On Health Law And Policy, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Our Broken Health Care System And How To Fix It: An Essay On Health Law And Policy, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Timothy S. Jost
No abstract provided.
The Massachusetts Health Plan: Public Insurance For The Poor, Private Insurance For The Wealthy, Self-Insurance For The Rest?, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
The Massachusetts Health Plan: Public Insurance For The Poor, Private Insurance For The Wealthy, Self-Insurance For The Rest?, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Timothy S. Jost
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Drawing Lines In Shifting Sands: The U.S. Supreme Court's Mixed Messages On Erisa Preemption Imperil Health Care Reform, Mary Ann Chirba
Drawing Lines In Shifting Sands: The U.S. Supreme Court's Mixed Messages On Erisa Preemption Imperil Health Care Reform, Mary Ann Chirba
Mary Ann Chirba
This article explains how and why the U.S. Supreme Court’s increasingly erratic preemption jurisprudence has fueled a health care system that routinely harms patients, frustrates health care providers, and derails state reform efforts. It begins by describing the mechanics of ERISA preemption, and then analyzes the Court’s 30 year odyssey from no preemption of state law claims against managed care payers, to broad preemption, retreating to limited preemption and, for now at least, trending again toward broad preemption. This is an extremely unstable area of the law which, at this point, demands not just an update but a thorough overview. …
Brief Of Amici Curiae: The Leadership Conference On Civil And Human Rights, Asian American Legal Defense And Education Fund, National Aids Housing Coalition, National Economic And Social Rights Initiative, National Health Care For The Homeless Council, National Law Center On Homelessness & Poverty, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, Urban Justice Center And Wild For Human Rights In Support Of Respondents Regarding Medicaid Expansion, In The Supreme Court Of The United States, State Of Florida, Et Al., V. United States Department Of Health And Human Services, Et Al., On Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Eleventh Circuit, No. 11-400, Martha F. Davis, Margaret Woo, Risa E. Kaufman
Margaret Y. K. Woo
This amicus brief was filed before the Supreme Court in the Medicaid Expansion portion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) litigation on behalf of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and other national organizations concerned with the international human rights implications of the ACA litigation, particularly with regard to race discrimination. The brief first argues that the international context of the ACA is relevant to the Court’s consideration of the law’s constitutionality, noting the many times when Court has taken international law into account in rendering decisions. The brief then chronicles the occasions on which international bodies and …
California’S Vanishing Community Hospital: An Endangered Institution, Craig B. Garner
California’S Vanishing Community Hospital: An Endangered Institution, Craig B. Garner
Craig B. Garner
Across the nation, America’s community hospitals are under siege. Once considered indispensable to our health care system, the twenty-first century finds the local hospital fighting an uphill battle against a convergence of factors that favors the sharing of resources by multiple facilities. Rising health care expenses, challenging regulatory hurdles, and a reimbursement structure in the midst of transition all bear some responsibility for the obstacles faced by today’s community hospital. Nowhere is this phenomenon more pronounced than in California, where regular hospital closings amid an ever-growing population stand as incentive for remaining hospitals to team up (or remain teamed up) …
The Constitutionality Of The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act In The Courts Of Appeals, Mel Cousins
The Constitutionality Of The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act In The Courts Of Appeals, Mel Cousins
Mel Cousins
Having undergone an extensive process of political discussion and debate, the ACA (properly the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) is now under intensive legal challenge with over 20 different cases from both states and organizations and individuals having been initiated. The challengers argue that the Act lacks a constitutional basis and/or infringes on their constitutional rights. These cases involve a fascinating intersection of legal, political and policy issues and, regardless of the outcome, will have important implications for the future direction of US health care policy. There have now been four decisions of the courts of appeal on the …
The Next Stage Of Health Care Reform: Controlling Costs By Paying Health Plans Based On Health Outcomes, Dale B. Thompson
The Next Stage Of Health Care Reform: Controlling Costs By Paying Health Plans Based On Health Outcomes, Dale B. Thompson
Dale Thompson
The predominant form of paying for health care in the United States (Fee-for-Service) creates inefficient incentives and leads to rising costs. A number of changes were incorporated into the health care reform legislative package of 2010, but these changes will not stop rising costs. Instead, this article proposes that the reimbursement structure for the Medicare Advantage program be revised so that medical plans receive their payments based on delivery of health outcomes, not delivery of health services. This approach utilizes centralized enforcement at the level of the plan, to provide incentives for the plan to encourage its providers to improve …
Healthy Competition: What’S Holding Back Health Care And How To Free It, Michael F. Cannon
Healthy Competition: What’S Holding Back Health Care And How To Free It, Michael F. Cannon
Michael F. Cannon
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