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Institutional Analysis And Physicians' Rights After Vacco V. Quill, Larry I. Palmer
Institutional Analysis And Physicians' Rights After Vacco V. Quill, Larry I. Palmer
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The Evolution Of Health Care Decision Making: The Political Paradigm And Beyond, Elizabeth Price Foley, Elizabeth C. Price
The Evolution Of Health Care Decision Making: The Political Paradigm And Beyond, Elizabeth Price Foley, Elizabeth C. Price
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The ascendancy of the political paradigm as the primary mode of health care decision-making is a natural evolutionary reaction to the unrestrained market paradigm. Although a certain of political intrusion into the health care marketplace is both necessary and useful, it has the potential to unravel the efficiencies achieved by managed care. Overzealous intervention in the health care market in the name of "reform" may cause the health care decision-making pendulum to swing back to the provider paradigm, with its tendency to escalate health care costs and diminish access. One possible way to achieve decision-making equilibrium and and end the …
Crossing The Line: The Political And Moral Battle Over Late-Term Abortion, Rigel C. Oliveri
Crossing The Line: The Political And Moral Battle Over Late-Term Abortion, Rigel C. Oliveri
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This paper focuses on the political and moral debate surrounding two pieces of federal legislation which sought to criminalize a particular late term abortion technique scientifically known as "intact dilation and extraction," and popularly known as "partial birth abortion." The Congressional "Partial Birth Abortion" Bans of 1996 and 1997 inflamed the already emotionally charged contest over abortion rights. The intense lobbying and advocacy efforts put pro-choice activists in the uncomfortable position of having to defend one of the most extreme positions on the abortion-rights spectrum. The advocacy was further complicated by the fact that very few women obtain late term …