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Health Maintenance Organizations And Federal Law: Toward A Theory Of Limited Reformmongering, Philip C. Kissam, Ronald M. Johnson
Health Maintenance Organizations And Federal Law: Toward A Theory Of Limited Reformmongering, Philip C. Kissam, Ronald M. Johnson
Vanderbilt Law Review
The purpose of this Article is twofold. First, we develop a theory for HMO legislation based on an assessment of past experience with HMOs, current problems with the delivery of health services, and different legislative theories that have been advanced by others. Secondly, we use this theory to help evaluate some major issues faced by legislators and administrators in regulating HMOs and to suggest a number of improvements. A recurring theme throughout this analysis is that policymakers have not considered fully all of the economic and political ramifications of the HMO phenomenon. This has helped produce theoretical conflict about HMO …
Mass Immunization Cases: Drug Manufacturers'liability For Failure To Warn, Mary E. Mann
Mass Immunization Cases: Drug Manufacturers'liability For Failure To Warn, Mary E. Mann
Vanderbilt Law Review
In recent years, the manufacturers of polio' vaccines, administered in mass immunization programs at public health clinics, have been beseiged with a flurry of cases in which they have been held liable for failing adequately to warn of the dangers inherent in the use of an otherwise pure, unadulterated drug. As a result of the relatively large judgments awarded in these cases and the almost insurmountable practical problems of preventing further liability, drug manufacturers have ceased, or are threatening to cease, production of these essential, life-saving vaccines. Consequently, these recoveries threaten the effectiveness of the nation's preventative health care programs …