Health care law - "drive-through delivery" legislation - Massachusetts requires hospital stays of forty-eight hours for newborns and postpartum mothers. - Act of Nov. 21, 1995, ch. 218, ss. 1-10, 1995 Mass. Legis. Serv. 726, 726-28 (West)

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Passage of laws in Massachusetts and three other states protecting minimum postpartum hospitals stays serves laudable goals but fails to address more fundamental need for holistic health care reform. The Massachusetts law dictates that hospitals stays after vaginal births be at least 48 hours and at least 96 hours after cesarean births. The law fails to address the fact that HMOs and insurers will simply pass on additional costs or reduce other services. Reforms are needed that address the entire system of incentives that influence insurer, hospital and doctor decision-making.

Massachusetts, Health insurance, Childbirth, Delivery (Childbirth), Insurance, Postnatal care, Maternity stays, states

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Forty megahertz and a mule: ensuring minority ownership of the electromagnetic spectrum

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The FCC's minority preferences for ownership of the electromagnetic spectrum are justified according to the libertarian concept of equality because they are opportunity-enhancing rather than outcome-determinative. The libertarian view also helps to clarify the Supreme Court's affirmative action jurisprudence, suggesting that the court has tended to apply strict scrutiny to outcome-determinative programs and intermediate scrutiny to opportunity-enhancing programs.

United States, Cases, Radio broadcasting, Television broadcasting, Television frequency allocation, Frequency allocation (Telecommunications), United States. Federal Communications Commission, Social policy, Affirmative action, Radio frequency allocation, Minority business enterprises

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The future of majority-minority districts in light of declining racially polarized voting

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In some jurisdictions, racially polarized voting, the tendency of people to prefer candidates of their own race, has declined.? This raises the possibility that "coalitional" districts may be created to fufill the mandates of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.? These would be disctricts with white majorities, but with enough white voters willing to vote for African-American or Latino candidates to ensure such communities an equal change at representation.

Public affairs, Social aspects, Political activity, Minorities, Voting, Apportionment (Election law)

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