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• Protecting Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism and the Patient-Protective Argument

In this Article I examine “medical tourism”—the travel of patients who are residents of one country to another country for medical treatment—which is fast becoming a multi-billion dollar industry. To date, the primary U.S. medical tourists appear to have been uninsured or underinsured Americans seeking substantial cost savings by traveling to less developed countries for care. More recently, state governments, self-insured firms, Fortune 500 companies, and domestic insurers have begun attempts to get their insured populations to use medical tourism as well by requiring it or giving incentives for its use (what I call “insurer-prompted medical tourism”). There is, however, a dark side to the growth of this industry. In this Article I set out...

• Iowa Law Review
• Nbr. 95-5, July 2010

• 19 CFR 351.309 - Written argument.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 19: Customs Duties

• Oral Argument

Notice is hereby given of the scheduling of in the matters of: James C. Latham v. U.S. Postal Service, MSPB Docket Number DA-0353-10-0408-I-1; Ruby N. Turner v. U.S. Postal Service, MSPB Docket Number SF-0353-10-0329-I-1; Arleather Reaves v. U.S. Postal Service, MSPB Docket Number CH-0353-10-0823-I-1; Cynthia E. Lundy v. U.S. Postal Service; MSPB Docket Number AT-0353-11-0369-I-1; and Marcella Albright v. U.S. Postal Service, MSPB Docket Number DC-0752- 11-0196-I-1. Date and Time: Tuesday, December 13, 2011, at 10 a.m. Place: The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Room 201, 717 Madison Place, NW., Washington DC. Status: Open.

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 73691, November 29, 2011
• Notices
• Merit Systems Protection Board

• Less perfect unions: the argument against same-sex marriage that hasn't been tried in the courts.

HERE'S AN ETIQUETTE question for the new age: You are introduced to a couple and their little girl. The men are clean cut, early middle-aged. Their ch...

• The American Conservative
• May 19, 2008

• 20 CFR 802.308 - Conduct of oral argument.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 20: Employees' Benefits

• 20 CFR 802.307 - Notice of oral argument.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 20: Employees' Benefits

• Controversial Theory Sparks Argument About Why Humans Reason

CAMBRIDGE, England and NEW YORK, July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire- USNewswire/ -- A revolutionary theory about reasoning and argumentation is itself leading to argument and debate around the world. The theory, that the main function of human reasoning is not to help with the individual pursuit of the truth but with the production of arguments to convince others, has been promoted by academics, Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences, published by Cambridge University Press.

• U.S. Newswire
• July 25, 2011

• In Search of Argument

Is Democracy Possible Here?: Principles for a New Political Debate, by Ronald Dworkin, is reviewed.

• Texas Law Review
• Vol. 86 Nbr. 1, November 2007

• The Ultimate Final Argument

[...] the work of the dialogue is completed here,1 and a sound interpretation of the dialogue must explain why this is so.

• Review of Metaphysics, The
• Vol. 63 Nbr. 3, March 2010

• Prosecutor's Argument Requires Murder Conviction Be Vacated, Says Mississippi Supreme Court

During the trial of a man accused of killing his wife, the prosecutor made an impermissible "golden rule" argument to the jury, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled in vacating the husband's murder conviction. The defendant's wife died from a single shotgun wound to her face. Despite initially telling the police it was suicide, the defendant later admitted he shot his wife by accident.

• Lawyers USA
• December 12, 2011