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Why Don't Doctors & Lawyers (Strangers In The Night) Get Their Act Together?, Frances H. Miller May 2004

Why Don't Doctors & Lawyers (Strangers In The Night) Get Their Act Together?, Frances H. Miller

Michigan Law Review

Health care in America is an expensive, complicated, inefficient, tangled mess - everybody says so. Patients decry its complexity, health care executives bemoan its lack of coherence, physicians plead for universal coverage to simplify their lives so they can just get on with taking care of patients, and everyone complains about health care costs. The best health care in the world is theoretically available here, but we deliver and pay for it in some of the world's worst ways. Occam's razor ("Among competing hypotheses, favor the simplest one") is of little help here. There are no simple hypotheses - everything …


Advising The Elderly Or Disabled Client, Melissa Brown, Lawrence Frolik Jan 2004

Advising The Elderly Or Disabled Client, Melissa Brown, Lawrence Frolik

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Books

Advising the Elderly or Disabled Client provides specific answers and solutions to legal and practical questions and problems that arise in daily practice when representing elderly or disabled clients. This resource offers coverage across the full range of elderly or disabled client concerns, including: planning for Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance; medical decision-making and right-to-die issues; retirement and disability income planning; acute, chronic or changing medical conditions such as AIDS, Alzheimer's, strokes and mental illness. Includes practice aids such as official forms, model documents, detailed real-world examples, checklists for interviewing and planning, and a quick-reference glossary of technical terms, concepts, …


Medicaid: Issues And Challenges For Health Coverage Of The Low-Income Population, Diane Rowland Jan 2004

Medicaid: Issues And Challenges For Health Coverage Of The Low-Income Population, Diane Rowland

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


Universal Coverage And The American Health Care System In Crisis (Again), Rick Mayes Jan 2004

Universal Coverage And The American Health Care System In Crisis (Again), Rick Mayes

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


Be Not Afraid Of Change: Time To Eliminate The Corporate Practice Of Medicine Doctrine, Nicole Huberfeld Jan 2004

Be Not Afraid Of Change: Time To Eliminate The Corporate Practice Of Medicine Doctrine, Nicole Huberfeld

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This article focuses on three key reasons that the corporate practice of medicine doctrine should be laid to rest. First, the motives for creating the corporate practice of medicine doctrine are long gone; it has been some time since physicians have been able to operate as a guild of autonomous providers of health care. The delivery and financing of health care places physicians in an integrated system that is only frustrated by the corporate practice of medicine doctrine. Second, it is disingenuous to pretend that physicians are not influenced by financial gain. This is handily evidenced by the federal and …


Public Tort Litigation: Public Benefit Or Public Nuisance?, Richard C. Ausness Jan 2004

Public Tort Litigation: Public Benefit Or Public Nuisance?, Richard C. Ausness

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

One of the latest developments in products liability law is "public tort" litigation. Public tort or government-sponsored lawsuits are actions by federal, state, or local government entities to recover the cost of public services provided to persons who have been injured as the result of a defendant's alleged misconduct. The best known example is the tobacco litigation of the mid-1990s in which more than forty states brought suit against the leading tobacco companies to recoup the cost of providing health care services to indigent smokers. Eventually, the tobacco companies agreed to pay the states more than $200 billion and also …