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Full-Text Articles in Health Law and Policy
Racist Health Care?, Barbara A. Noah
Racist Health Care?, Barbara A. Noah
Faculty Scholarship
During the past few years, rationing has become an explicit feature in decisions concerning optimal delivery of health care services, and it poses difficult choices for health care providers and policymakers. Insurers and patients increasingly must balance the desire for access to every possible treatment against concerns about affordability. Costdriven treatment decisions are becoming an unavoidable reality for most patients. Apparently, however, another more pernicious type of rationing occurs in this country. It does not depend on factors such as the likelihood of an optimal outcome, the comparative efficacy of different available treatment modalities, or even the ability to pay …
Rising Temperatures: Rising Tides, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Rising Temperatures: Rising Tides, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Transboundary environmental problems do not distinguish between political boundaries. Global warming is expected to cause thermal expansion of water and melt glaciers. Both are predicted to lead to a rise in sea level. We must enlarge our paradigms to encompass a global reality and reliance upon global participation.
Toward A Pragmatic Model Of Judicial Decisionmaking: Why Tort Law Provides A Better Framework Than Constitutional Law For Deciding The Issue Of Medical Futility, Brent D. Lloyd
Seattle University Law Review
Recognizing that courts will eventually have to confront the issue of medical futility, this Comment argues that there is no principled basis for omitting these difficult questions from a legal analysis of the issue and that courts should therefore decide the issue in a manner that honestly confronts them. Specifically, the argument advanced here is that courts confronted with cases of medical futility should decide the issue under principles of tort law, rather than under principles of constitutional law. The crux of this argument is that tort principles provide an open-ended analytical framework conducive to considering troublesome questions like those …
Destructuring Disability: Rationing Of Health Care And Unfair Discrimination Against The Sick, David Orentlicher
Destructuring Disability: Rationing Of Health Care And Unfair Discrimination Against The Sick, David Orentlicher
Scholarly Works
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Establishing A Prima Facie Case Involving Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: A Threshhold Approach, 29 J. Marshall L. Rev. 441 (1996), Merilyn Brown
Establishing A Prima Facie Case Involving Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: A Threshhold Approach, 29 J. Marshall L. Rev. 441 (1996), Merilyn Brown
UIC Law Review
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