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Health Insurance Exchanges: Legal Issues, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Health Insurance Exchanges: Legal Issues, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
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The Elderly And Health Care Rationing, George P. Smith Ii
The Elderly And Health Care Rationing, George P. Smith Ii
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This Monograph derives from research undertaken during my appointment as a Visiting Scholar at The Poynter Center for The Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University, Bloomington in July-August, 2000. The thesis of this Monograph is that before contemporary society can confront the issue of health care rationing for the elderly, it must seek to integrate the disciplines of moral and ethical reasoning with the qualitative formulations of needs and resources. Until such a point is reached, however, the greatest danger to avoid is the perpetuation of non-decisions regarding health care treatment. Such "decisions" all too frequently result in …
Reshaping The Common Good In Times Of Public Health Emergencies: Validating Medical Triage, George P. Smith Ii
Reshaping The Common Good In Times Of Public Health Emergencies: Validating Medical Triage, George P. Smith Ii
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Public health ethics require individuals who are inherently at risk for transmitting communicable disease to be subjected, oftentimes, to isolation, quarantine, or compulsory vaccination - all undertaken, as such, to protect the common good and thereby secure the public-at-law for exposure to the spread of an infectious disease.
This article tests the extent to which public health emergencies necessitate a reinterpretation or reshaping of the common good and proceeds to analyze the extent to which the medical principle of triage is a relevant construct for allocating scarce medical resources during contemporary public health emergencies. The article proceeds to test the …
Weighing Medical Judgments: Explaining Evidentiary Preferences For Treating Physician Opinions In Erisa Cases After Black & Decker Disability Plan V. Nord, Roy F. Harmon Iii, A.G. Harmon
Weighing Medical Judgments: Explaining Evidentiary Preferences For Treating Physician Opinions In Erisa Cases After Black & Decker Disability Plan V. Nord, Roy F. Harmon Iii, A.G. Harmon
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