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...EMPLOYERS HEALTH AND WELFARE FUNDS,. on behalf of themselves and al.... These cases involve payments made by health insurers1 for the .... Furrow et al., Health Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems 643 (6th ed. 2008) [hereinafter Furr...
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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...
... and Co-Director, Petrie–Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard ... employers are considering (or in a few cases have already implemented) programs that would ince... in his right arm, moderate speech problems, pain, and depression. Believing the stroke to be ... abroad, but it indicates in its materials that “[i]f your doctor is US board certified or ...
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...Those problems and -- and the projects to address them, predate M... for spills of oil and other hazardous materials. It -- it would require congressional action to.....In some cases the impacts of this spill on the environment have ... there was any doubt about the fact that a healthy economy is inextricably linked to a healthy enviro...
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...In end-of-life cases, states frequently assert the sanctity of human li...'S COMMISSION FOR THE STUDY OF ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH...FURROW ET AL., HEALTH LAW: CASES, MATERIALS AND PROBLEMS 1344-46 (5th ed. 2004). . (20) MILL, ...
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Introduction. I. The Pathogenesis of Obesity: History, Etiology, and The Social Epidemic. A. The Gay Nineties and the Portly Trencherman: A Brief History of American Perceptions of Obesity. B. A Shocking Pandemic: The Epidemiology of Obesity. 1. A Global Crisis: The Scourge of the Developed World. 2. The Inversely Proportional Relationship of Income and Obesity. 3. The Mammy Complex: The Cultural Anachronism of Obesity and Race. C. Obesity and the Genomic Model: Surfeit, Shortage, and the Impetus of Culture. 1. What Watson and Crick Never Saw Coming: When the Double Helix Leads to Double XL. II. The Conduct That America Loves to Hate: State and Federal Panaceas for the Obesity Epidemic. A. Obesity and Economics: The Market Failure Paradigm. B. The Evolution of the Nanny State: Federal M...
... say, the cost of obesity and its related health consequences, which is currently estimated at arou... stranger Atkin's diet dominate reading materials. 25 Technological devices to aid weight loss abou... could prevent three hundred thousand cases of diabetes per year. 59 It is no surprise then t... seek medical assistance, the health care problems continue. One study conducted on people admitted t...
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... hampered by §4631(d) is commercial,as our cases have used that term. Cf. Board of Trusteesof Stat...)("States adopt laws to address the problems that confrontthem. The First Amendment does not re....07.08.pdf (all Internet materials as visited June 21, 2011, and available inClerk of...
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... used to treat digestivetract problems, under the brand name Reglan, generic manufacturer...Held: The judgment is reversed, and the cases are remanded.------ * Together with No. 09-1039, A... to prescribingphysicians and other healthcare professionals. However, the FDAdenies that the Ma... (citing studies ------ (all Internet materials as visited June 17, 2011, and available in Clerkof...
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... use the term human dignity when deciding cases about freedom of speech, reproductive rights, raci... the participants: "Consent cannot save materials that otherwise contain degrading or dehumanizing s... "banning abortions will protect women's health and freedom of choice." (181) Siegel explains that... dignity as recognition also poses problems for adjudication, because recognition claims invar...
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...-judge DistrictCourt is applicable to both cases.After years of litigation, it became apparent...For years themedical and mental health care provided by California'sprisons has fallen ... a three-judge court must then submit "materials sufficient to demonstrate that [these requirements... Congress was sensitive to thereal-world problems faced by those who would remedyconstitutiona...
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... DISORDERS - ONE OF THE LARGEST PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEMS TODAY, AND TOMORROW?!. Srdan Marusic, Vla... (1991), the number of heavy and complex cases of drug addicts that could not be stabilized using...Materials: psychological assesment, psychiatric assesment, E...
