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Encouraging Safety: The Limits Of Tort Law And Government Regulation, Richard J. Pierce, Jr.
Encouraging Safety: The Limits Of Tort Law And Government Regulation, Richard J. Pierce, Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
Society wants more expenditures to reduce the risks of injury,illness, and premature death associated with many activities, but simultaneously it wants the fruits of those activities to continue to be available at a low cost. To some extent, these goals are inherently in conflict. On occasion society may give vitality to the slogan that human life has an infinite value, but it can do so only in narrow contexts and for brief periods. More often, artful self-deception is practiced to create the appearance of adhering to an impossible, but widely held, ideal, while in actuality lives are balanced against dollars. …
Relative Value Guides And The Sherman Antitrust Act, David R. Simonsen, Jr.
Relative Value Guides And The Sherman Antitrust Act, David R. Simonsen, Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
The skyrocketing costs of health care services for the American people constitute a crisis of national importance.' The seriousness of this crisis is reflected in the attention that antitrust enforcement agencies of the federal government are giving to the health care industry. The agencies are responding, at least in part, to the common perception that these skyrocketing costs result as much from the restrictive trade practices of the health care industry as from the growing use of sophisticated technology and inflation. Competition is viewed as an antidote to increasing prices and antitrust laws as the vehicle by which federal agencies …