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Bioethics: Health Case Law And Ethics, Robert Schwartz, Barry R. Furrow, Sandra H. Johnson, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Thomas L. Greaney
Bioethics: Health Case Law And Ethics, Robert Schwartz, Barry R. Furrow, Sandra H. Johnson, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Thomas L. Greaney
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This book provides a rich body of materials for courses in bioethics and law. Primary legal sources, including judicial opinions, statutes, regulations and institutional policies, will give students insight into the strategies used by courts, legislatures, agencies and health care providers in addressing bioethics issues. The book also draws from interdisciplinary research in medicine, ethics, and law to provide students diverse critiques of legal and public policy issues in bioethics. Materials in this text are tightly edited and designed to create high quality and focused classroom discussion, and, the text includes classroom tested problems that will engage students more deeply …
Medicaid Reform Through Setting Health Care Priorities, Robert L. Schwartz
Medicaid Reform Through Setting Health Care Priorities, Robert L. Schwartz
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The face of American health care has changed since the creation of the two largest government funded health programs, Medicare and Medicaid. Whatever positive cultural benefits those programs have provided, they have carried with them one overwhelming defect: a language with obscure and untreatable words and phrases which has added to the mystery and impenetrability of the underlying substantive law. This article discusses Oregon’s proposal for prioritization, reviews legal arguments, a policy argument against the proposal, and finally concludes that any priority list that generalizes from condition-treatment pairs necessarily overgeneralizes, that the range of cost-utility ratios for any condition-treatment pair …