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Healthcare Law, Kathryn S. Dunnam

Mercer Law Review

This Article serves as a review of significant healthcare developments in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit over the last two years and builds upon Mercer Law Review's last Healthcare Article in Volume 65. Specifically, this Article will cover cases dealing with physician speech, the False Claims Act, and the Medicare Secondary Payer Act.

Small-Business Health Insurance: A Symptom Of The Diseased American Health Care System ... What Is The Cure?, M. Catherine Norman

Mercer Law Review

Small businesses are independent establishments wholly owned by an individual, a family, or business partners. Small businesses are vital to local and national economies. In the aggregate, they have a very large impact on the nation, but individually, they are truly small. As such, the influence of small businesses could easily be overlooked, especially when health insurance legislation's focus is on individuals and large businesses.

The current American health insurance system is not sustainable because it increases the burden on large employers while providing a potentially untenable situation for small employers, does nothing to control rising medical costs, and does …