Legal Hegemony in Medicine

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When Caspar Weinberger, then Secretary of HEW, published a series of so-called utilization-review regulations in the Federal Register, in November, 1974, the medical profession was understandably outraged. Particularly unrealistic and galling was the requirement that review of hospitalized Medicare and Medicaid patients had to be accomplished within 24 hours of their admission. Although protests were vigorous, they appeared to elicit no more than the usual and customary disregard, if not disdain. In February of this year, the AMA, therefore, acted to take the issue to court — the first time that such action had ever been attempted by the . . .

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