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Who Is Encroaching Whom? The Balance Between Our Naval Security Needs And The Environment: The 2004 Rrpi Provisions As A Response To Encroachment Concerns, Natalie Barefoot-Watambwa
Who Is Encroaching Whom? The Balance Between Our Naval Security Needs And The Environment: The 2004 Rrpi Provisions As A Response To Encroachment Concerns, Natalie Barefoot-Watambwa
University of Miami Law Review
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The Role Of State Regulation In Consumer-Driven Health Care, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Mark A. Hall
The Role Of State Regulation In Consumer-Driven Health Care, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Mark A. Hall
Scholarly Articles
The Consumer-directed health care movement has recently been given a major boost by section 223 of the Medicare Modernization Act, which provides federal income tax subsidies for health savings accounts coupled with high deductible health plans. The federal tax subsidy, however, will only be available in states whose program of insurance regulation permits high deductible health plans to exist. The MMA represents, therefore, a new approach to federalism in health insurance - offering tax incentives for states to change their approach to insurance regulation rather than preempting state regulation or imposing federal regulation. To date the states have generally responded …
Against “Individual Risk”: A Sympathetic Critique Of Risk Assessment, Matthew D. Adler
Against “Individual Risk”: A Sympathetic Critique Of Risk Assessment, Matthew D. Adler
Faculty Scholarship
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Applying Cost-Benefit To Past Decisions: Was Environmental Protection Ever A Good Idea?, Lisa Heinzerling, Frank Ackerman, Rachel Massey
Applying Cost-Benefit To Past Decisions: Was Environmental Protection Ever A Good Idea?, Lisa Heinzerling, Frank Ackerman, Rachel Massey
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In this Article, however, we do not mount a critique from outside the technique of cost-benefit analysis. Instead, we examine an argument that proponents of cost-benefit analysis have offered as a linchpin of the case for cost-benefit: that this technique is neither anti- nor pro-regulatory, but rather a neutral tool for evaluating public policy. In making this argument, these proponents have often invoked the use of cost-benefit analysis to support previous regulatory decisions (their favorite example involves the phase down of lead in gasoline, which we shall shortly discuss) as a sign that this technique can be used to support …