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Linking Low-Income Washingtonians With Health Care Financing Arrangements, Kenneth R. Wing, Michael G. Gordie Jan 2003

Linking Low-Income Washingtonians With Health Care Financing Arrangements, Kenneth R. Wing, Michael G. Gordie

Seattle University Law Review

Following this introductory section, Part II presents a comprehensive description of the health financing arrangements available to low-income residents of Washington State, from federally funded Medicaid programs to state-subsidized insurance. The Article concludes in Part III, outlining the interrelationship between these arrangements and the political process, and suggesting that the Washington State Legislature should be aware of how policy actually affects people.


Blinded By Bioterrorism: Public Health And Liberty In The 21st Century, George J. Annas Jan 2003

Blinded By Bioterrorism: Public Health And Liberty In The 21st Century, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

In Blindness, Nobel Prize laureate Jos6 Saramago chronicles the quarantining of the first victims of a plague of blindness.1 We meet many people who become blind in Saramago's novel, including an opthamologist, a one-eyed man with an eye patch, and a man born blind. Saramago reminds us that we are all blind in one way or another, and that there are many things about ourselves and our society that we can't or won't see. The quarantine itself turns out to be isolating, inhumane, and degrading; the interred blind being portrayed by themselves and others as pigs, dogs, and "lame crabs." …


Hipaa Regulations: A New Era Of Medical-Record Privacy?, George J. Annas Jan 2003

Hipaa Regulations: A New Era Of Medical-Record Privacy?, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

The new privacy regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) become effective April 14, 2003. This article outlines the implications of the new policy for practicing physicians. The regulations will affect virtually every physician, because they apply to any health care provider who conducts any business electronically, including billing. The regulations require health care providers to provide patients with a privacy notice that informs them who will have access to their records without their explicit consent and about patients' rights to inspect and amend their own records.


Arbitrage, Bioethics, And Cloning: The Abcs Ofgestating A United National Cloning Convention, Rosario M. Isasi, George J. Annas Jan 2003

Arbitrage, Bioethics, And Cloning: The Abcs Ofgestating A United National Cloning Convention, Rosario M. Isasi, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

America's inability to craft a regulatory ethics of abortion has led to a
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/="/">women by our private infertility industry. Because of an "all or nothing"
/="/">research mentality, it is becoming increasingly impossible to suggest
/="/">outlandish and reckless reproductive research possibilities without seeing
/="/">them actually pursued. And if even the wild west seems a bit inhospitable
/="/">to particular research goals, such as cloning to produce the genetic duplicate
/="/">of an existing person, media darlings like Severino Antinori and Zavos
/="/">Panos, and even members …