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Community-Based Health Care: A Legal And Policy Analysis , Lewis D. Solomon, Tricia Asaro
Community-Based Health Care: A Legal And Policy Analysis , Lewis D. Solomon, Tricia Asaro
Fordham Urban Law Journal
While Washington has been unable to lead the way in significant health care reform, the health care system has begun to transform itself in terms of curbing skyrocketing health care costs, dealing with the more than forty million Americans who lack health care coverage, and the problems plaguing the Medicare and Medicaid systems. The search has begun for a health care model that ensures quality care to a wide population in a cost-efficient manner. This article explores how the U.S. Health care system currently functions, examines several innovative models, and suggests ways in which a decentralized, community-based approach to health …
Tax Exempt Financing Of Health Care Facilities As A Component Of The Market Approach To Health Care Cost Containment, George A. King
Tax Exempt Financing Of Health Care Facilities As A Component Of The Market Approach To Health Care Cost Containment, George A. King
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Comment will discuss the current health delivery system in the context of a Market Approach to health care cost containment. Political and financial issues in health care as well as current judicial and tax policies affecting Market Approach theory will be examined. The Comment concludes that targeted tax exempt financing must play a major role in establishing competitive forces in the health care delivery system.
The Nonproliferation Mandate And The Appropriate Legal Standard In Health Care Bargaining Unit Determinations, Mary Esquivel Sciarra
The Nonproliferation Mandate And The Appropriate Legal Standard In Health Care Bargaining Unit Determinations, Mary Esquivel Sciarra
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Comment examines the ongoing controversy over the appropriate legal standard to be applied in the determination of bargaining units in the health care industry. It reviews the basic law which governs the selection of appropriate units, discusses the legislative history of the 1974 amendments as they relate to bargaining units, and considers the intent of the accompanying admonition against unit proliferation. Implementation of the congressional mandate is examined in Board unit determinations. The Board's persistent use of the traditional industrial community of interest test is examined in light of circuit court decisions which have advocated new approaches. This Comment …
The Health Professions Educational Assistance Act Of 1976: A New Prescription?, John J. Greene
The Health Professions Educational Assistance Act Of 1976: A New Prescription?, John J. Greene
Fordham Urban Law Journal
The 1976 Health Professions Educational Assistance Act is a new congressional effort to promote the rational development, distribution, and utilization of the health professions through financial incentives. The Act represents a compromise solution to the issues affecting the quality, quantity and distribution of health manpower. It targets the four major problems of the current system: (1) the shortage of health professionals; (2) the geographic maldistribution of health manpower; (3) the specialty maldistribution of physicians and dentists; and (4) the influx of foreign medical graduates into the United States. This comment examines the effectiveness of past legislative responses to these issues …