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Redefining Government's Role In Health Care: Is A Dose Of Competition What The Doctor Should Order?, James F. Blumstein, Frank A. Sloan
Redefining Government's Role In Health Care: Is A Dose Of Competition What The Doctor Should Order?, James F. Blumstein, Frank A. Sloan
Vanderbilt Law Review
Throughout the 1970s, the two major political parties espoused some form of national health insurance. Faced with a fiscal squeeze, however, the Carter Administration gave national health insurance a relatively low priority.The political movement for comprehensive national health insurance rests on an ideological commitment that the federal government should underwrite the cost of providing universal access to medical services. The objective is essentially redistributive in nature: equitable concerns for the disadvantaged loom as the major focus. The selective expansion of coverage to encompass those identified as needy and worthy, but only those so identified, is anathema to those who traditionally …
Health Professionals' Access To Hospitals: A Retrospective And Prospective Analysis, Jane L. Davis
Health Professionals' Access To Hospitals: A Retrospective And Prospective Analysis, Jane L. Davis
Vanderbilt Law Review
The professional interdependence of the hospital institution and practicing physicians is a phenomenon of post-World War II society. This Note first examines the historical development of that interdependence and explores its erosion into a hospital-dominant mode. Next it examines the most important forces that influence and complicate the question of hospital privileges for the physician within the modern hospital: the interrelated pressures of intraprofessional restraints, pertinent government regulation, and medical technology. Then it sketches the internal procedures that have engendered and defined the relationship between physician and hospital, with special attention to the weaknesses within the procedures that have led …