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Where Is Health Law Going?: Follow The Money, Robert L. Schwartz

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Where has health law come from? Where will it be going? To follow the development of this discipline, follow the money. Where substantial financial interests entered the health care enterprise, lawyers have been sure to follow--or, sometimes, to lead. Where we can predict there will be concentrations of money, we can predict there will be concentrations of lawyers, and, not too far behind, legal academics. The very birth of "health law" (or, at least, its transformation out of "medical law") was a consequence of a newly developing medical economy. Since the term "Health Law" was first used as a casebook …