Rights and efficiency in American health law
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Cost-sensitive employers, health insurers and taxpayers no longer subsidize individual choice in healthcare uncomplainingly. Employer-sponsored health plans, Medicare and Medicaid pursue management strategies designed to discourage costly consumer choices. Managed care advocates have ways of finessing this dilemma.
Publication Name: Human Rights
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0046-8185
Year: 1998
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Doctors and lawyers: fighting for immigrant human rights
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Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has founded the PHR Asylum Network, which includes more than 350 physicians and other medical professionals volunteering to conduct medical examinations of asylum applicants reporting means of persecution including torture and give expert written testimony at asylum hearings.
Publication Name: Human Rights
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0046-8185
Year: 1998
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