Health care as a (big) business: the antitrust response

Article Abstract:

The antitrust challenge to health care and its failure to create a consumer-driven market for health care is discussed. Medicare and Medicaid and their public financing of people who had previously been charity cases are also discussed. Medicine then became more lucrative and also attracted private capital and entrepreneurs.

Interpretation and construction, Antitrust law

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The lawyerization of medicine

Article Abstract:

Health lawyers as engendering increased uncertainty in the medical profession, and the response of both market and nonmarket institutions, is discussed. Medical malpractice, bioethics, public entitlements and managed care brought the two professions into intellectual proximity.

Practice, Medical law

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From the clinics to the courts: the role evidence should play in litigating medical care

Article Abstract:

The author discusses the role scientific evidence should play in making a determination as to whether a health care plan committed a tort or breached a contract by cutting costs or limiting medical care.

Health maintenance organizations, Evidence, Expert, Expert evidence

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