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Medicine As A Public Calling, Nicholas Bagley
Medicine As A Public Calling, Nicholas Bagley
Michigan Law Review
The debate over how to tame private medical spending tends to pit advocates of government-provided insurance—a single-payer scheme—against those who would prefer to harness market forces to hold down costs. When it is mentioned at all, the possibility of regulating the medical industry as a public utility is brusquely dismissed as anathema to the American regulatory tradition. This dismissiveness, however, rests on a failure to appreciate just how deeply the public utility model shaped health law in the twentieth century— and how it continues to shape health law today. Closer economic regulation of the medical industry may or may not …
Ohio Edison V. Public Utility Commission Of Ohio: Affirming The Charitable And Municipal Exception To The Policy Against Anti-Competitive Behavior, John E. Ferren
Akron Law Review
This Note will analyze the effects that the Ohio Edison decision will have on the utility industry and on electric consumers.This Note will also explore the common law rule, the background of the rule, and competition in the utility industries. This Note will thoroughly address the opinion and its underlying rationale. Finally, this Note will explore changes within the law and regulation necessary to bring competition to the public utilities industry.