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Health Reform: What's Insurance Got To Do With It? Recognizing Health Insurance As A Separate Species Of Insurance, Wendy K. Mariner Jan 2010

Health Reform: What's Insurance Got To Do With It? Recognizing Health Insurance As A Separate Species Of Insurance, Wendy K. Mariner

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Health insurance can be, and to a large extent already is, a separate species of insurance. This article describes the different views of insurance that made health reform contentious. It argues that the goals of health reform are incompatible with conventional views of insurance. Nonetheless, reforming health insurance to achieve those goals does not require as dramatic shift as some might think, because health insurance has already become primarily a means of paying for health care, rather than a simple risk spreading device for specified losses.


Let The Securities And Exchange Commission Outsource Enforcement By Litigation: A Proposal, Tamar Frankel Jan 2010

Let The Securities And Exchange Commission Outsource Enforcement By Litigation: A Proposal, Tamar Frankel

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The stories of Stanford's suspected Ponzi scheme, and Madoff s proven scheme, as well as the Securities and Exchange Commission's lenient settlements with very large suspected violators, and its focus on the numerous, small accused, have raised questions about the Commission's enforcement resources. This Article suggests that the Commission outsource civil cases against very large defendants when the examination of the defendant finds signs of wrongdoing under the securities acts. The Commission already outsources two types of legal services and the United States government practices extensive outsourcing. This article suggests that with appropriate limitations and controls outsourcing of enforcement litigation …


Bonding Bankers: Notes Toward A Governance Approach To Risk Regulation, Frederick Tung Jan 2010

Bonding Bankers: Notes Toward A Governance Approach To Risk Regulation, Frederick Tung

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Important regulatory failures have been identified in the wake of the recent financial crisis, and comprehensive regulatory reform has been much on the minds of policymakers. Reform proposals call for a number of significant changes to the scope and structure of financial regulation to address systemic risk. With banking regulation, however, the twin tools of capital requirements and external supervision seem to remain the dominant regulatory levers. In this short discussion, I introduce the contours of an important supplement to the existing approach, a governance approach that uses bank executives' compensation arrangements as a policy lever. I propose that bank …