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- 1From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHealth care costs have been rising steadily in most industrialized countries. (1) These increases are driven primarily by technological advances and, to a lesser degree, by aging of the population. Many factors make it...
- 2From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHealth reform proposals tend to be rich with details and dimensions. The primary goal of health reform is typically to extend health coverage to people who lack it. Yet even the most similar of plans differ in terms of...
- 3From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedGovernment's responsibility to safeguard the public's health through law has been part of the social contract since ancient times. Cicero declared salus populi suprema lex esto--"the safety of the people is the supreme...
- 4From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed[P]layers line up in a long line and hold hands. The player at the front of the line is the 'head' and the player at the end of the line is the 'tail'.... The game begins when the head begins to run wildly in any...
- 5From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe number and the scale of transboundary public health concerns are increasing. Infectious and non-communicable diseases, international trade in tobacco, alcohol, and other dangerous products as well as the control of...
- 6From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDespite a consensus across the political spectrum that the problem of the chronically uninsured is in dire need of solution, little progress has been made. Public spending goes to topping up coverage for the elderly,...
- 7From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI FIRST MET JOHN FLETCHER IN 1982 at a symposium where he spoke on "Moral Problems and Ethical Issues in Prospective Human Gene Therapy." (1) None of those present could have known at the time how prescient that paper...
- 8From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDavid B. Resnik, Owning the Genome: A Moral Analysis of DNA Patenting (Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2004): 272 pps As a field, biotechnology is synonymous with innovation and controversy. By investigating, creating,...
- 9From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMillions of Americans are dependent on what is often called the "safety net." These loosely-organized networks of health and social service providers serve the man), Americans who are uninsured, dependent on public...
- 10From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOn March 16, 2004, Geragos & Geragos, a prominent Los Angeles-based law firm, filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against companies Johnson & Johnson and subsidiary DePuy Mitek, Inc. that allegedly bought body parts...
- 11From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed Term was notable even relative to the Court's normal standard of prominence, with several key decisions touching a number of deeply contested issues of law and policy. Initial...
- 12From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEven Americans who have only a vague knowledge of health policy know that the U.S. is different. We do not have "socialized medicine," like our European or Canadian neighbors. We believe that health care is not rationed...
- 13From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCritics of the gaps in our nation's health insurance decry the absence of a health insurance "system" and the resulting "patch-work" of private and public insurance that leaves so many Americans unprotected. There is no...
- 14From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedNot so very long ago--in historical terms--the politics of Medicare were thought to be stable and well-established. Medicare's 1965 enactment culminated an epochal political battle that spanned fifteen years and involved...
- 15From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn May 2004, the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice reported that the number of persons held in U.S. prisons and jails was 2,078,570, a new record. While troubling enough, other facts bear...
- 16From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHuman clinical research trials, by which corporations, universities, and research scientists bring new drugs, devices, and procedures into the practice and marketplace of medicine, have become a huge business. The...
- 17From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAmerican policymakers and health policy analysts have a love-hate relationship with job-based health insurance. The policy press routinely runs articles about the demise of the current system of voluntary...
- 18From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe editorial philosophy of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics has always centered around the idea of accessibility. As a multidisciplinary journal, we are read by doctors, lawyers, philosophers, policy-makers, and...
- 19From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLack of health insurance coverage is a large and growing problem for millions of American families. Rising health care costs and economic insecurity continue to threaten the bedrock of the health insurance...
- 20From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAs indicated in the title, the focus of this essay is on where we should go from here and not the how, which is addressed by other authors in this issue. I am assuming that there is probably a general consensus as to...